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Accountants could face tax evasion charges
February 25th, 2015
The chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, has called for organisations including accountants, to be prosecuted if they facilitate tax evasion by their clients. The Lib-Dem minister wants to push through new legislation before the general election on 7 ...
Greek finance minister’s letter to the Eurogroup
February 24th, 2015
Following is the text of Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis‘s letter to Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem outlining Greece’s proposed reforms. “Dear President of the Eurogroup, In the Eurogroup of 20 February 2015 the Greek government was invited to present ...
Visa Europe: Payment tokenisation service launched
February 24th, 2015
Service protects customer data to enable secure and convenient payments across a variety of technologies Visa Europe today announces its plan to launch a tokenisation service customized for the needs of the European market. Tokenisation technology will be at ...
Cryptocurrency company’s operator arrested
February 24th, 2015
Ryan Kennedy committed fraud in the Dogecoin community last year. Kennedy, or “Alex Green” as he is known to the larger community, operated the cryptocurrency company Moolah before resigning amidst allegations of theft. In October of last year, Kennedy allegedly stole upwards ...
Barclays loses High Court battle with Grant Thornton
February 23rd, 2015
Judge rules in favour of Grant Thornton in High Court battle with Barclays over Von Essen Hotels Group audits BARCLAYS has lost its High Court spat with Grant Thornton over non-statutory audits for Von Essen Hotels Group (VEH). The legal ...
Five Reasons Bitcoin Revolution is Over
February 23rd, 2015
2015 will be the year Bitcoin “dies.” The bubble is over and the cryptocurrency, while revolutionary, has serious issues which will prevent it from ever becoming widely accepted. Andre Alessandro — The five problems listed here are both structural and external ...
HSBC whistleblower spills Lynch evidence to Senate
February 19th, 2015
Massive drug, terrorism scandal ropes in Obama’s AG nominee The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday conducted a two-hour session with HSBC whistleblower John Cruz in its investigation of attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch’s role in the Obama administration’s decision ...
Finsphere Appoints Deanna Oppenheimer as a Strategic Adviser
February 19th, 2015
Former WAMU and Barclays retail banking executive leads CameoWorks consultancy Finsphere Corporation, a leader in mobile identity-authentication services, said today it has appointed Deanna Oppenheimer, founder and CEO of the Seattle-based global consultancy CameoWorks, as a strategic adviser to ...
FCA joins HSBC tax-dodging inquiry
February 17th, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says it is looking into the HSBC bank over its Swiss tax-dodging scandal. The move comes in the light of last week’s allegations that the bank had helped hundreds of people evade UK tax ...
Self protection against money laundering
February 16th, 2015
There is much that both financial and non-financial businesses can do to take the initiative and implement their own money laundering prevention measures. The framework for such prevention measure for protection against money laundering is: Know your administration Know ...