Legal,Regulation,Tax & Compliance

02/10/2016

Tax transparency – what’s it worth? by George Bull

As Google and HMRC prepare to face the Treasury Select Committee on Thursday, there have been calls for businesses (and individuals) to make their dealings with the taxman more transparent. All this comes as MPs vote on whether to overturn their right to

02/10/2016

Mifid II rules delayed by a year to 2018

ESMA will have to design data exchange systems with about 300 trading centres offering around 15 million financial instruments in order to implement the regulation.

02/10/2016

5 Tax Mistakes Made by Rich People

From failing to understand tax-loss-harvesting rules to a lack of knowledge about international investing laws, these errors cost rich people both money and time.

02/08/2016

NAJIB'S Arabian Nightmare Begins

In Saudi Arabia, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said that he accepted the attorney general’s opinion that there had been no wrongdoing, but he also said that he did not think that the money had come from the Saudi government or that it was a politi

02/08/2016

Northern Trust: Navigating Funds Regulation

At a recent Northern Trust event in London, 40 percent of the attendees said they do not expect their investors to be engaged in UCITS and AIFMD considerations by December 2016

02/08/2016

Former FIFA watchdog member jailed for seven years

While the charges were not football-related, the verdict against a man who served on a body which monitored FIFA's finances is another blow to the image of the organisation facing an unprecedented corruption crisis.

02/08/2016

Scotland advertised across Eastern Europe as tax haven

A new round of publicity for Scotland as an "offshore zone" began this month, more than six months after it was alleged that $1 billion had been funnelled out of poverty-stricken Moldova through Scottish shell companies.