07/08/2012
The FDF, which is equivalent to Finance Ministry in Switzerland, has said in a report on international financial and tax matters for 2012 that the country is at the forefront of global efforts to tackle cross-border financial crime.
07/04/2012
Barclays was fined £290m by UK and US regulator for attempting to manipulate the rate, which is used to set the borrowing costs for millions of consumers, businesses and investors, by falsely stating how much they were paying to borrow money.
07/03/2012
A San Francisco-based broker must pay more than $904,000 to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, which has been aggressively clawing back bonus money that it paid to brokers before its demise in 2008.
07/02/2012
The new French Socialist government has promised to reinstate the country’s old wealth tax rate and increase income tax, enough to make wealthy taxpayers think seriously about leaving for greener Swiss pastures.
07/01/2012
The executive is under investigation for aiding in illicit marketing, laundering and benefiting from the practices, Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutors office, said Friday.
07/01/2012
The Independent on Sunday has learnt that the Conservative deputy chairman, Michael Fallon, is a board member of a leading brokerage firm that dominates the rates market and which has been asked to co-operate with the Financial Services Authority's i
07/01/2012
The European markets watchdog is investigating whether the big three credit ratings agencies' methods of evaluating banks are rigorous and transparent enough, its chairman Steven Maijoor told the Financial Times on Monday.
06/28/2012
Around 60 percent of the employees have decided they would not keep the shares but would instead sell them immediately to institutional investors, with Commerzbank itself and Deutsche Bank AG acting as bookrunners.
06/26/2012
According to the report, the evolving regulatory framework for asset managers in a number of Asian countries, particularly with regard to consumer protection and fair dealing, is as tough as in Europe and the US.