12/09/2012
Financial regulators are looking at radical changes to the way they approve senior people after it emerged that Lord Stevenson, former chairman of collapsed bank HBOS, stepped down last month from a senior role at an investment firm which had connections
12/09/2012
A Senate committee said in July that failures in London- based HSBC’s money-laundering controls allowed terrorists and drug cartels access to the U.S. financial system.
12/05/2012
Withers has hired partner Simon Michaels from Berwin Leighton Paisner for its wealth planning practice in Singapore
12/05/2012
Three former Deutsche Bank employees have filed complaints with the US securities regulators claiming the bank failed to recognize up to $12 billion (£7.46 billion) of unrealised losses during the financial crisis.
12/05/2012
It is the largest tax-evasion settlement in history, according to George Osborne,
12/05/2012
Some big companies take advantage of these loopholes to avoid paying millions of euros in tax
12/04/2012
The SFO has instructed 5 Essex Court silk Jeremy Johnson QC to defend a £200m damages claim brought by businessman Vincent Tchenguiz.
12/04/2012
By making the act of administrating Libor a regulated act, the FSA has proposed removing the British Bankers
12/03/2012
Emphasizing that no further concessions are conceivable, Widmer-Schlumpf stressed that Germany and Switzerland have already negotiated a "good and fair treaty,"
12/03/2012
Laws planned next year will also increase the range of information they must pass on to the Revenue team dealing with loopholes.
12/03/2012
This is the latest honor for the legal boutique firm, which was also recently awarded the 2012 Corporate Intl Magazine Global Award for the “Cross Border Law, Firm of the Year” in Florida.
12/02/2012
Lawyers for de Kassin filed a complaint on Thursday in a Manhattan federal court asking a judge to overturn parts of the ruling.
12/02/2012
France looks more like an old maid to me
12/02/2012
China's Huaxia Bank Co Ltd has blamed an employee at a Shanghai branch for selling a wealth management product without permission, after Chinese media said the product could not repay investors.
12/02/2012
He was UBS’s head of European cash trading, alleges race discrimination and unfair dismissal in a lawsuit filed in June at a London employment tribunal
12/02/2012
UBS faces a third FSA investigation in four years, this time for Libor. A record-breaking fine is coming its way…
12/02/2012
Widmer-Schlumpf warned that there is either this treaty or no accord
12/02/2012
These two cases illustrate well how important it is for successful and wealthy businessmen to have a clear and robust succession plan that lays out how their own personal wealth is to be divided, when the time arises.
12/02/2012
An increasing number of people are being approached by firms promoting investments in rare earth metals and related schemes.
11/29/2012
Magazine claims draft legislation exists already