12/10/2014
The trial of a former Julius Baer banker accused of breaching Swiss banking secrecy laws by handing over confidential data about offshore clients to WikiLeaks was halted on Wednesday after the defendant collapsed.
12/09/2014
Nevertheless, he was nabbed in Italy last year while on vacation.
12/09/2014
For Celebrity Clients, Professionals and Wealthy individuals, Even Backroom Meetings With Judges Can Become Front Page News.
12/09/2014
UP to 10 multinational firms, including the world’s leading tech companies, are being audited by the tax office in the largest investigation into offshore “super profit” shifting in the nation’s history.
12/09/2014
Court limits effort to access some profits
12/09/2014
Swiss Bank Drops Out of IRS Tax Compliance Program
Reversing earlier moves taken this summer and fall, a major international bank is ending its cooperation with the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to prevent investors from investing money in foreign countries with more amenable tax structures and
12/09/2014
Tuesday's agreement means that firms in Singapore can report U.S. account holder information to the local tax authority, which will send it to the IRS, saving them from dealing directly with U.S. tax authorities.
12/09/2014
Property commentators in the UK believe a majority of homes located in places such as the London commuter belt and some of its cheaper boroughs will be significant winners, following the changes to UK Stamp Duty Land Tax announced by the UK chancellor Geo
12/08/2014
This has severely damaged the party’s image
12/08/2014
Ms Gibaud said her job was to get them "things money can't buy
12/08/2014
The asset management industry suffered a shock last month when an influential panel that advises the UK regulator on policy issued a damning report on the state of the fund market.
12/08/2014
The Guide, which was drafted by a working group of AIMA members, also reflects the greater degree of due diligence being conducted on prime brokers today and the evolution in the prime brokerage model since the financial crisis.
12/08/2014
This comes as a number of countries and global regulatory bodies introduce their own tax reporting standards in response to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA).
12/08/2014
A former senior Chinese military officer was obsessed with gold and often ferried gold bars for bribes in a luxury car, a Hong Kong magazine reported on Monday, in connection with a graft case which investigators estimate is worth some $5 billion.
12/05/2014
Getting married is financially complicated, and getting remarried is even more so.
12/05/2014
We have decided that we cannot work with stolen data
12/05/2014
The Swiss government will cooperate with India on the black money issue if Indian authorities provide valid proof of tax evasion, but will not work with evidence obtained through 'fishing expeditions'
12/05/2014
UBS and Credit Suisse should be subject to a higher leverage ratio, the broadest of capital requirements, an expert panel said on Friday, but stopped short of laying out specifics for Switzerland's two largest banks.
12/04/2014
RBC Takes $15.8 Million Charge on Wealth-Management Business
Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s second-largest lender by assets, took an C$18 million charge in the fiscal fourth quarter tied to its wealth-management business.
12/03/2014
Buck, who hasn’t appeared in federal court in New York, asked for a bail package without leaving Switzerland, which doesn’t extradite its citizens for tax offenses.