05/05/2015
French-Italian whistle-blower's Open Letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Increase transparency and focus on big corporations that exploit faulty banking mechanism to stash wealth abroad.
05/05/2015
Barclays’ Lehman deal will go ahead
Barclays originally won approval to buy the brokerage business in September 2008
05/05/2015
UK Supreme Court to hear HMRC case on bank bonuses
The UK’s highest court is to hear an appeal by HM Revenue & Customs over two offshore schemes designed to avoid paying tax on bankers’ bonuses
05/05/2015
Foreign businessmen and lawyers facing 48 years in prison for tax evasion
Group of wealthy expats facing prison for failing to declare property purchases in Marbella
05/05/2015
Regulators have already fined six major banks including UBS a total of US$4.3 billion
05/05/2015
HSBC Judge Seeks More Information About Sanctions Compliance
The government and HSBC seek 30 days to comply, saying they may need to request that the report be filed under seal, or with redactions.
05/04/2015
Aberdeen’s challenge will be watched closely by hundreds of other funds operating in India, who were alarmed by remarks last month from Arun Jaitley, finance minister, that India would seek to raise as much as $6.4bn by levying MAT on foreign invest
05/04/2015
Cites failure to comply with the law
05/01/2015
Will FCA overturn independence rules as MiFID II looms?
The regulator is consulting on ditching the independence standard in light of incoming MiFID II rules
04/30/2015
China Construction Bank Looks to Switzerland
China Construction Bank has officially applied for a banking license in Switzerland
04/30/2015
Rules Would Provide Greater Transparency and Better Inform Shareholders
04/30/2015
After establishing a global two-tier panel last year, Barclays has launched a procurement process to formalise its flexible resourcing usage and establish its first contract-lawyer only panel.
04/30/2015
Ex-banker and whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld tells how he came to be the man who ended the tradition of bank secrecy and got rich in the process.
04/29/2015
DB Group Services pleaded guilty to a criminal charge of wire fraud from the U.S. Department of Justice and will pay a $775 million penalty.
04/29/2015
To date, the SEC has awarded 17 whistleblowers since its whistleblower program began more than three years ago. Payouts now total over $50 million.
04/29/2015
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04/29/2015
Switzerland's Supreme Court has ruled that US$6.74 million (NT$205 million) on deposit in accounts held by family members of Taiwan's former President Chen Shui-bian should be returned to Taiwan
04/29/2015
The men also sent investors audited financial statements where they failed to disclose almost $3 million in expenses tied to transactions involving other entities.
04/29/2015
Norton Rose Fulbright is delighted to announce that Laura Shumiloff, global director of marketing and communications,
04/29/2015
In the first case of its kind, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission awarded a payment to a whistleblower after he experienced retaliation from his employer after he reported alleged misconduct.