04/16/2012
Swiss Hedge Fund Regulations to Get Tightened, FT Reports
The regulations were proposed by the Federal Council and must be voted on by the country’s parliament, the newspaper reported.
04/16/2012
The regulations were proposed by the Federal Council and must be voted on by the country’s parliament, the newspaper reported.
04/16/2012
Almost one in 10 people earning more than £10 million a year is paying less than the 20% basic rate of income tax, the Treasury says.
04/16/2012
An independent French magistrate has been named to examine the commercial practices of Swiss bank UBS AG, financial daily Les Echos reported on Monday.
04/13/2012
The British fund manager has marked 14 May as the day it will produce the information documents for investors - about six weeks before the 1 July deadline set by the European Union for regulated products.
04/13/2012
The transaction proceeded by way of a Jersey scheme of arrangement and has received the required regulatory approvals and the sanction of the Jersey Royal Court.
04/12/2012
He joins Ogier from Gorvins in Manchester, where he was the partner in charge of their wills, trusts and probate team and led a number of client mandates across the trust sector.
04/11/2012
Appleby (Cayman) has formed a dedicated Regulatory and Financial Services Team to provide advice to local and international clients on regulatory matters in the Cayman Islands.
04/11/2012
Denouncing the legacy of outgoing President Nicolas Sarkozy’s five-year term in office, marked by accumulated debt of EUR612bn (USD799.7bn), by a proliferation of supplementary finance laws and incoherent budgets, aimed at maintaining the fiscal pri
04/11/2012
Mauritius owes its tax status to historic ties with India, which resulted in a treaty signed in 1983.
04/11/2012
Credit Suisse Group can’t disclose a client’s account data to U.S. tax authorities because a request for assistance last year addressed only tax evasion, which isn’t covered by a 1996 treaty, a Swiss court ruled.
04/10/2012
U.S. District Judge Andrew Guilford in Santa Ana, California today issued a “tentative” opinion rejecting Olenicoff’s lawsuit against Zurich-based UBS, the largest Swiss bank.
04/09/2012
One of the sets of data is information from the Zurich Coutts Bank, a unit of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, the German magazine reported.
04/09/2012
The move has gone down well in Switzerland, where politicians have praised the country's assertiveness. But it is unclear how the Swiss authorities will proceed -- the main witness is dead.
04/09/2012
A powerful alliance of aid groups, charities and arts organisations is launching a full-frontal assault on Treasury plans to limit tax relief for philanthropists, warning that they will have a devastating impact on the culture of giving at the heart of Da
04/09/2012
Dodge allowed him to extend the number of days he could stay in the UK without paying tax
04/05/2012
The hedge fund of a Conservative Party donor has been fined $98 million for market abuse.
04/04/2012
Wigmore Association Evaluates Expansion of Membership, Global Investment Priorities and Developments in China and South East Asia
04/03/2012
The swoop by Hong Kong’s graft-busting body on the Kwoks and a former senior government official, coming only days after a new chief executive was elected, provides ample fodder for conspiracy theorists.
04/03/2012
The FSA believes that the size of the proposed fine reflects the serious nature of the market abuse and should act as a deterrent to other market participants.
04/02/2012
No financial details were given as the parties cannot disclose details until the contract is signed.