07/09/2012
Recent changes to the French tax system announced by president Francois Hollande’s government may not be so serious for British and other owners of French properties, believes UK regulated specialist mortgage broker Offshoreonline.org.
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.
07/08/2012
Royal Bank of Scotland is fighting a court order requiring it to co-operate with an international criminal investigation into allegations its staff fixed a key banking lending rate.
07/08/2012
It’s a scandal that broke with a classic newspaper scoop.
07/08/2012
Media’s ‘bad apple’ theory no longer works
07/05/2012
The government said it would seek Parliament approval for €7.2 billion ($9.08 billion) in extra taxes this year.
07/05/2012
HSBC Millionaire Client Fined for Swiss Bank Tax Evasion
He was convicted Wednesday of cheating the public revenue at Wood Green Crown Court.
07/05/2012
The Financial Services Authority has told advisers they must make it clear to clients who manages their investments when outsourcing to a discretionary fund manager.
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
private client lawyer Fiona Byron and litigation lawyers Julia Bryden and Angus Wood have also been promoted
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.
07/02/2012
The bankers at the heart of the Barclays interest rate-rigging scandal could be prosecuted for fraud
07/01/2012
Unnamed UBS executive charged in tax-evasion investigation
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
Julius Baer declined to comment on the matter, the Swiss newspaper said.
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.
06/28/2012
Royal Bank of Scotland could face a hefty fine from the same interest rate rigging scandal that has hammered Barclays this week and left its boss Bob Diamond fighting for his job.
06/27/2012
The relief will help middle class folks who have been living for years in high tax foreign countries such as the United Kingdom, and particularly the estimated one million Americans living in Canada.