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CySec: Withdraw of CIF authorisation
July 25th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has issued an announcement that following previous announcements dated 21 February 2014 and 31 March 2014, on a meeting held on July 7, 2014 has decided to ...
Statement by the European Commission, ECB and IMF on the Fifth Review Mission to Cyprus
July 25th, 2014
Staff teams from the European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited Nicosia during July14-25, 2014 for the fifth review of Cyprus’s economic program, which is supported by financial assistance from the European ...
The Real Reason Banks Don’t Like Bitcoin
July 22nd, 2014
Banks are reluctant to work with bitcoin, that fact has been well known in the community for some time. Until now, though, few concrete reasons have been given as to why. New statements from a senior banking practitioner in ...
IA ANALYSIS: FATCA is stranger than fiction
July 22nd, 2014
FATCA was implemented worldwide at the beginning of this month, but the impact (and costs) are only now just beginning to filter through to the financial services community. Part of the US Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (HIRE), ...
ASIC acts on licensees failing to lodge annual statements
July 22nd, 2014
A proactive ASIC review of Australian financial services (AFS) licensees that failed to lodge audited annual statements has led to ASIC cancelling eight AFS licences. ASIC reviewed the conduct of 72 AFS licensees operating in the financial advice industry ...
FASB Unveils Plan to Simplify Inventory, Extraordinary Items
July 18th, 2014
In its quest to simplify accounting standards, the Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued two new proposals — one to make it easier to measure inventory and another to eliminate requirements around extraordinary items. To make inventory measurement simpler, ...
Accountants To See IRS In Court Over Tax Preparer Program
July 18th, 2014
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has filed a federal lawsuit calling for the voluntary tax return preparer regulatory program planned by the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to be declared unlawful. AICPA President and CEO ...
U.S. sanctions set to slow Rosneft’s dollar debt, not oil deals
July 17th, 2014
President Barack Obama aimed a direct blow at Russia’s economic heart on Wednesday with sanctions on Rosneft, the flagship oil giant that generates more than 4 percent of the world’s crude and over 8 percent of the country’s GDP. ...
FX Benchmark Overhaul
July 16th, 2014
Global regulators published details of their plans to overhaul foreign-exchange benchmarks in response to allegations that traders colluded to manipulate rates in the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency market. The Financial Stability Board proposed changes to the way the WM/Reuters rates ...
South Africa’s Davis Committee Proposes Tax Reforms For SMEs
July 16th, 2014
The Davis Tax Committee (DTC), which was set up by the South African Ministry of Finance in July 2013 to make recommendations for possible tax reforms, has issued an updated report for public comment, covering issues regarding the taxation ...
