02/11/2012
Hedge fund manager charged with insider trading
The president of a Menlo Park hedge fund Friday became the latest figure to be indicted in the Galleon insider trading scandal that has stretched from Silicon Valley to Wall Street.
02/11/2012
Barclays' bonus pool is not the only part of its results that has riled investors: the bank's accounting practices have caused controversy too.
02/11/2012
Standard Chartered’s CEO for Asia breaches FSA rules in £2 million share trade
Tim Baxter, Stanchart’s London-based head of corporate communications told Euromoney: “Yes, there has been a breach.”
02/08/2012
Some 2,000 people from the UK with money invested in Liechtenstein have come forward after the tax haven was put under the spotlight.
02/08/2012
UBS Employee Tax-Evasion Probe Dropped by German Prosecutors
A four-year-old investigation that included searches of offices and private property, didn’t support allegations initially made in a television-news report, prosecutors in Mannheim said in an e-mailed statement.
02/08/2012
Russia eyes luxury tax
Russia plans to introduce a tax on luxuries eyeing the European experience, although many experts doubt this ‘Robin Hood’ initiative will be successful.
02/07/2012
Julius Baer ready to pay fine to avert U.S. probe
U.S. officials have in recent months been piling pressure on Swiss private banks like Baer whose clients include wealthy Americans with hidden offshore accounts.
02/07/2012
The case is a rare win for a broker trying to oppose the return of unpaid bonus money, say lawyers.
02/06/2012
The banks are suspected of colluding to influence key interest rates and the trading conditions for complex financial products that allow investors to bet on further interest rates — known as derivatives — the commission said in a statement Fr
02/06/2012
Collusion between these banks is suspected to have influenced the London interbank offered rate and the Tokyo interbank offered rate, two indicators of the interbank interest rate level.
02/06/2012
Linklaters and Ashurst have taken lead roles on TPG Capital's $800m (£508m) acquisition of hedge fund services company GlobeOp.
02/06/2012
Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA) regulator has started a formal enforcement probe against Swiss bank UBS over last year's $2 billion trading loss at UBS's London arm.
02/06/2012
Elzahne Henn of global audit, tax and advisory firm Mazars said there would be "no good news for wealthy tax avoiders in 2012" when the Budget was delivered by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on February 22.
02/05/2012
Julius Baer is one of 11 Swiss banks under pressure from the U.S. to give up tax-evading American customers and the bankers who helped them.
02/04/2012
The IRS says it has stepped-up its internal reviews, including by designing new identity-theft-screening filters, to spot such scams before refunds are issued.
02/03/2012
The London-based bankers, whose claims range from around 15,000 euros to 2.6 million, launched their legal battle in late 2009 after some were paid only 10 percent of the discretionary bonuses they were promised for 2008 out of a guaranteed minimum bonus
02/03/2012
Regulators and some lawmakers in Europe, the U.S. and Asia have fared little better, resorting at times to nationalist sentiment to block exchange consolidation, alongside analysis that at times seemed out of step with a world of round-the-clock global tr
02/03/2012
“Other financial intermediaries are also subject to the investigation,” Comco said.
02/03/2012
Switzerland agreed to transfer about 20,000 encrypted documents to authorities in the U.S. as the two countries work toward settling a dispute over tax evasion.
02/03/2012
Prosecutors said that from 2002 to 2011, more than 100 U.S. taxpayers conspired with Wegelin