12/13/2012
Harbottle & Lewis sealed the prize for Private Client/Family Team of the Year after successfully proving to the judges that it has adapted its practice around this rapidly-evolving area of law.
12/13/2012
Echoing the Vice Chancellor’s remarks, Leitl said that property, gift and inheritance taxes should all be “shown the red card.”
12/12/2012
The move would allow them earlier access to EU markets under a new regulatory regime for alternative investment managers.
12/12/2012
The banks in Switzerland continue to back the strategy of bilateral tax agreements, which are, according to the EU Commission, compatible with EU law.
12/12/2012
The growth in Advisory and Tax underlines the strength of client demand for professional services
12/12/2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the manager of two New York-based hedge funds with conducting a pair of trading schemes involving Chinese bank stocks and making $16.7 million in illicit profits.
12/12/2012
German authorities investigate 25 Deutsche Bank staff, including co-chief executive Jürgen Fitschen, on suspicion of tax scam
12/12/2012
The final figures are still being negotiated and could change, three people familiar with the probes said.
12/11/2012
HSBC Holdings' Mexican branches had become so well-known to drug traffickers as the place to launder money that cartels began using special boxes to speed transactions, US prosecutors said.
12/11/2012
A mass brawl erupted at the Christmas party of a top City investment firm after a broker discovered his fiancée was cheating on him with a colleague, a court was told.
12/10/2012
Standard Chartered will pay more than $300m (£187m) to settle charges it violated US sanctions on Iran, Burma, Libya and Sudan.
12/10/2012
HSBC is expected to pay US authorities a record $1.9bn (£1.18bn) to settle allegations that its failure to enforce anti-money laundering rules left America's financial system exposed to drug cartels.
12/10/2012
A US Senate investigation said the UK-based bank had been a conduit for "drug kingpins and rogue nations".
12/10/2012
It was probably the world’s most expensive lunch. When Fahim Imam-Sadeque, an investment manager, invited out a colleague it ended up costing him £1.7 million.
12/10/2012
Since 2009, several European banks have paid heavy settlements related to allegations they moved money for people or companies on the U.S. sanctions list.
12/10/2012
UBS AG is expected to face a fine as early as this week that may surpass the record 290 million pounds ($466.6 million) Barclays Plc, the U.K.’s second-biggest bank, paid in June to settle claims it attempted to manipulate Libor.
12/09/2012
Employees who participated in the trust were asked to help fund a payment of at least a few hundred million pounds if they want to settle with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs
12/09/2012
Financial regulators are looking at radical changes to the way they approve senior people after it emerged that Lord Stevenson, former chairman of collapsed bank HBOS, stepped down last month from a senior role at an investment firm which had connections
12/09/2012
A Senate committee said in July that failures in London- based HSBC’s money-laundering controls allowed terrorists and drug cartels access to the U.S. financial system.
12/05/2012
Withers has hired partner Simon Michaels from Berwin Leighton Paisner for its wealth planning practice in Singapore