Search Results for: compliance
China ban on low-grade coal set to hit global miners
September 16th, 2014
The world’s miners, already smarting from a steep drop in iron ore prices, are about to be hit by a Chinese ban on low-quality coal that comes into effect next year. The National Development and Reform Commission, China’s state ...
Merrill Lynch Equities (Australia) Limited pays $96,000 infringement notice penalty
September 11th, 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has ruled a fine against Merrill Lynch Equities (Australia) Limited (Merrill Lynch). The company has paid a total penalty of $96,000 to comply with an infringement notice given to it by the Markets ...
CBC fines Alpha Bank Cyprus Ltd
September 11th, 2014
The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) has decided the imposition of fine amounting to €89.000 against Alpha Bank Cyprus Ltd for failing to comply with specific Laws and Directives. The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC), within the remit of exercising its ...
CySec imposes administrative fine of €18.000
September 10th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission informs the investors that decided to impose the administrative fine of €18.000 in total against Cyprus Investment firm “Regency Asset Management (Cyprus) Ltd” for breaching the Prevention and Suppression of Money Laundering and ...
CySec imposes administrative fine of €10.000
September 10th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission informs the investors that decided to impose the administrative fine of €10.000 in total against Cyprus Investment firm “SIB (Cyprus) Ltd” for breaching the Prevention and Suppression of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing ...
GSK China consumer healthcare unit linked to DOJ probe in 2012
September 9th, 2014
A U.S. anti-bribery probe into GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L) touched on the firm’s Chinese consumer healthcare business in 2012, internal documents show, suggesting the drugmaker’s compliance problems in China could go wider than previously revealed. GSK confirmed it had conducted ...
At Trial, Arab Bank’s Lawyer Spars With Witness
September 5th, 2014
For three days, the former chief of the Israeli military’s Palestinian Affairs Department delivered important, if a bit dry, testimony in the terrorism financing trial of Arab Bank in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. The witness, Arieh Spitzen, had ...
FASB’s proposed 2015 GAAP taxonomy available for comment
September 2nd, 2014
FASB released its proposed 2015 GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy on Friday and asked for public review and comment. The taxonomy is a list of financial reporting labels that are machine-readable and coded in XBRL. Users of financial statements can ...
Bank regulators need to get more realistic if we are to avoid a new crisis
September 2nd, 2014
The idea of a “Europe without banks” became popular after the financial crisis, when bankers were demonised and punitive regulations proposed. Six years on, the repercussions still resonate deeply, as I found at the recent Alpbach Financial Markets Symposium, ...
SEC gives $300,000 Whistleblower Award to Internal Auditor
September 1st, 2014
For the first time, the Securities and Exchange Commission is rewarding a corporate whistleblower whose actual job it is to blow the whistle on a company’s internal missteps. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it would provide a ...
