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FCA Research into the issue of de-risking
May 25th, 2016
The Financial Conduct Authority has issued a press release to make publish a research regarding the issue of de-risking. Below is the announcement as published from FCA: The FCA, along with fellow agencies and authorities, has a long-standing programme ...
Ethereum, explained: why Bitcoin’s stranger cousin is now worth $1 billion
May 25th, 2016
Bitcoin has struggled to live up to the hype that surrounded its emergence into the mainstream three years ago. Despite more than a billion dollars of venture capital funding, Bitcoin startups have failed to develop applications that appeal to mainstream customers. ...
CFTC Issues Final Cross-Border Margin Rule
May 25th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today adopted a rule implementing a cross-border approach to the CFTC’s margin requirements for uncleared swaps (Final Rule). Published in January 2016, the CFTC’s margin rule applies to CFTC-registered swap dealers and ...
Cambridge, Oxford, LSE, King’s and Queen Mary top latest law school league table
May 24th, 2016
Annual comprehensive rankings produced by The Guardian examine standards of teaching, level of feedback and overall quality of the course The latest law school league table has thrown up a list of the usual suspects, with the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, ...
Global law firm Linklaters announces the election of new Senior Partner
May 24th, 2016
Global law firm Linklaters announces the election of Charlie Jacobs as the firm’s new Senior Partner. Elected on a five-year term the appointment will be effective from 1 October 2016, once current Senior Partner Robert Elliott’s term ends. Charlie Jacobs joined ...
Arrests And Prosecutions Reveal Big Vagaries In Bitcoin Selling Regulations
May 23rd, 2016
U.S. laws governing bitcoin trading are vague and sometimes lead to complicated law enforcement actions, according to an article in Fast Company magazine. Anti-money laundering laws require exchanges to verify customers’ identities, but what constitutes an exchange can sometimes be unclear. ...
Fiat Chrysler suspected of emissions fraud
May 23rd, 2016
German regulators suspect that Italian-American auto maker Fiat Chrysler, like Volkswagen, used illegal software to cheat on emissions tests, a newspaper report said yesterday. The German Federal Motor Vehicle Office (KBA) had sent a report voicing the suspicion to ...
Lebanon declared that Tax data to be shared with foreign states in 2018
May 23rd, 2016
Automatic exchange of financial account information to be handled by specialized agency Lebanon has declared its commitment to the international standard of automatic exchange of financial account information, which aims to combat tax evasion and avoidance, according to a ...
ACCA-qualified accountant jailed for failure to declare £430k income
May 23rd, 2016
An ACCA member from Essex who failed to declare income and pay £107,000 of tax owed from accountancy work and property lettings and tried to hide the money in his children’s bank accounts has been jailed for four years, ...
Nearly a quarter of lawyers would quit and start their own firm
May 23rd, 2016
A poll by specialist recruiter Robert Half Legal has shown that 23 per cent of lawyers would choose to quit their current job and start up on their own if they had the capital. The figure represents an 18 ...
