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Transactional lawyers in demand in top European locations
December 16th, 2015
As work in transactional practice picks up across Europe, Australian banking, finance and corporate lawyers are in demand, according to a legal recruiter. While recruitment of Australian lawyers in Europe is usually limited, those with banking, finance or corporate ...
Brokers Warned Not to Steer Clients’ Stock Trades Into Slow Lane
December 15th, 2015
Brokers have been put on notice: treat your customers’ orders as well as you treat your own. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street’s self-regulator, recently said firms using the fastest, most expansive price databases for their own stock trading must ...
Historic climate deal in Paris: EU leads global efforts
December 14th, 2015
The European Union has played a key role in brokering a historic agreement in Paris, where the first-ever universal, legally binding global climate deal was adopted. It sets out a global action plan to limit global warming to well ...
Lawyers report lower satisfaction rates than Accountants with their IT systems
December 14th, 2015
Accounting, Legal and Marketing Firms Elevate their Reliance on Technology, New CompTIA Research Reveals Information-intense professional services firms in accounting, law and marketing are increasing their reliance on technology solutions to meet their business objectives, new research from CompTIA, ...
Russia’s Biggest Bank Wants To Adopt Blockchain. Not Bitcoin
December 11th, 2015
Sberbank, the biggest bank in Russia might adopt blockchain technology in the future. The bank plans to join the international consortium R3 and develop blockchain based services. However, as in the case of other international big banks, it doesn’t plan to use ...
Central Bank of Cyprus fined FBME Bank for €1.2 million
December 11th, 2015
The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC), within the remit of exercising its supervisory role, may take, under subsection (6) of section 59 of the Prevention and Suppression of Money Laundering Activities Laws of 2007 to 2013, all or any ...
BDO’S 2015 Financial Results Reveal Double Digit Growth
December 9th, 2015
13% increase in revenues strengthens BDO’s position as the leading mid-tier global accounting and consulting network • Revenues up 12.95% • 19 strategic mergers • Growth of US firm continues: a 29% rise in revenues takes BDO USA over US$ 1 billion ...
A Fateful Mistake Haunts Goldman Sachs
December 8th, 2015
Bank faces fresh allegations of share-count error tied to Tibco takeover Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is entangled in an increasingly contentious fight over a 2014 takeover on which it advised, underscoring the treacherous legal environment for mergers-and-acquisitions bankers. Goldman faces fresh allegations ...
CBA builds a blockchain in its innovation lab
December 7th, 2015
In its Innovation Lab in Darling Harbour, a team of Commonwealth Bank of Australia computer engineers have built a working “blockchain”. For CBA, a “distributed ledger” is no longer a concept on a whiteboard, but a matter of hardware. ...
EU Hits McDonald’s With Full-Blown Tax Investigation
December 4th, 2015
U.S. fast-food chain’s Luxembourg unit has paid ‘virtually’ no corporation tax on profits since 2009 European Union regulators confirmed Thursday they have opened a full-blown probe into McDonald’s Corp.’s tax affairs in Luxembourg, warning that a tax deal granted ...
