01/16/2014
Switzerland is at risk from plans to tighten European regulations on cross-border wealth management as the industry is vital to the nation’s economy, according to the Association of Swiss Private Banks.
01/14/2014
HM Treasury intends to make an amending statutory instrument to this effect in early 2014 but in the meantime, all transitional AIFMs are encouraged to make their applications for authorisation or registration as soon as possible.
01/14/2014
The regulator currently separates advisers into two fee blocks, A12 and A13, depending on whether or not they hold client money.
01/13/2014
HMRC stepped up its attack on banks and other businesses that paid salaries and bonuses through trusts, ratcheting up an extra compliance bill for the 770 companies in the large business sector by 160 per cent to £533m in the year to April 2013.
01/09/2014
Switzerland’s largest federal court told the nation’s tax authority not to disclose data about the bank account of a client of Julius Baer Group Ltd. to the U.S., after the Internal Revenue Service made an invalid request.
01/08/2014
Commerzbank AG must pay bonuses to 10 bankers in Singapore at its now-defunct Dresdner unit, who claimed the lender breached their contracts by refusing to pay, a judicial official ruled.