Managers of Wealth

Switzerland Tightens Rules for Crypto Providers

The Financial Action Task Force, or FATF, recently updated two-year-old guidance on digital assets.

Keeping the recovery on track

The recovery remains uneven with countries emerging from the crisis facing different challenges.

NatWest Wealth calls on FCA for further action

There’s a real need to simplify processes so that customers can access straight forward

Guidance for approval of senior pay

How senior pay and reward packages are approved.

IA publishes Guidance on FCA’s Guiding Principles on ESG and Sustainable Investment Funds

The purpose of the IA’s guidance is to help members implement the Guiding Principles and ensure more consistent customer communications.

Giovannelli e Associati with Objectway on the cross-border acquisition of Die Software

Our team, composed by partners Matteo Delucchi and Eugenio Romita, senior associate Antonello Lops and associate Lorenzo Mazzocconi, advised the purchaser on the SPA, the SHA, the related Italian corporate matters as well as on the tax structuring of the

How Credit Suisse Unit Shirks Credit Laws

Getting back to the entrepreneur.

FCA provides update on LIBOR transition

The focus since then has been on reducing the existing stock of LIBOR contracts.

Ex-rugby star turned private banker accused of stealing €578,000

He was released on bail of his own bond of €10,000 and agreed to surrender his passport

FCA bans financial adviser convicted for grooming

The FCA has banned director Jon Frensham (formerly known as Jonathan James Hunt) from performing any regulated activity.

US Tax Reform is Coming: What it Could Mean For You?

The top long-term capital gains rate would be increased from 20% to 25% for taxpayers in the highest ordinary income tax bracket, effective for sales after September 13, 2021

The new EU Commission AML/CFT legislative package revealed

If adopted as such, it will trigger substantial amendments to the current AML/CFT framework.

Proposals to reform the GDPR are significant but not radical

The key uncertainty is whether it will provoke the EU into revoking its adequacy finding for data transfers to the UK.

Basel III implementation in the European Union

Introductory remarks by Pablo Hernández de Cos, Chair of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and Governor of the Bank of Spain, Eurofi panel on Basel III implementation in the EU, Ljubljana, 10 September 2021.

5 Reasons Your Firm Needs a Comprehensive Compliance Strategy

For 21st-century financial services firms, one directive is clear: firms must improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their compliance programmes to out-perform the competition and succeed over the long term.

SEC Surpasses $1 Billion in Awards to Whistleblowers

The SEC has awarded approximately $1 billion to 207 individuals since issuing its first award in 2012.

Swiss Bank Queried by Senator on Tax Evasion Case

Bank held accounts of indicted software tycoon Robert Brockman

Police in Europe Bust International Investment Fraud Network

The vaguely-worded statement did not say how many victims suffered losses and failed to provide specific information on how many websites were involved, how many businesses or sham agents, or how long the investigation will continue.

Mirabaud's U.S. Political Woes Deepen

It also said that was unaware of Brockman’s real involvement in the accounts held with the bank, as none of these were in his name.

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