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KPMG buys High-Point Rendel
July 21st, 2015
Accounting giant KPMG has bought consultant High-Point Rendel Ltd. High-Point Rendel specialises in large scale global infrastructure projects mainly in the energy, transportation, and oil and gas sectors. Thirty-five staff from High-Point Rendel will now join KPMG’s Major Projects ...
JPMorgan $12.5 Billion Short in Fed Systemic-Risk Charges
July 21st, 2015
JPMorgan Chase & Co. still has a shortfall of as much as $12.5 billion in meeting capital rules approved by the Federal Reserve on Monday. The Fed assigned capital charges totaling more than $200 billion for eight of the ...
Deloitte joins cryptocurrency industry group
July 21st, 2015
To work with ADCCA on accounting standards for bitcoin. Big four accounting firm Deloitte has joined the peak industry group representing digital currency traders in Australia, highlighting a growing mainstream focus on cryptocurrencies. Australian Digital Currency Commerce Association is ...
Mainland China needs to let brokers play a bigger role in market
July 20th, 2015
While putting all shares in central clearing may be the mainland regulator’s idea of a “safe” market structure, the system creates a wide gap with the outside world and erodes the role stockbrokers can play. In Hong Kong, all ...
Satisfaction survey finds majority of junior lawyers feel fulfilled despite career concerns
July 17th, 2015
Most junior lawyers are both fulfilled by their professional lives and enjoy a reasonably healthy work/life balance despite concerns over the quality of management, bonus schemes and career prospects at their firms. These are the headline findings of the ...
China’s unravelling: Will it devalue the yuan next?
July 17th, 2015
China is grasping at policy measures to shore up its economy CHINA could be gearing up to join the global currency wars by devaluing the renminbi. So far this year more than 30 central banks from all over the ...
CentrumDirect set to launch online forex platform next week
July 17th, 2015
CentrumDirect, an arm of diversified Centrum Group, is set to launch next week an online forex platform Buyforex. in, which will allow users to see live quotes to buy and sell major currencies in various forms such as prepaid ...
Schaeuble Shrugs Off Greek Vote Saying Euro Exit Is Best
July 16th, 2015
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told Greece the only way it’ll get a debt reduction is to leave the euro and cast doubt on the country’s ability to even complete negotiations on a third bailout. Schaeuble, who led the ...
The ‘Greek Debt Deal’ Is Already Starting To Fall Apart
July 15th, 2015
The “deal that was designed to fail” has already begun to unravel. The IMF, which was expected to provide a big chunk of the financing, has indicated that it may walk away from the deal unless Greece is granted ...
Costs lawyers gather strength as costs budgeting becomes more complex
July 15th, 2015
Annual survey reveals ‘costs management regime is far from perfect’ Solicitors struggling to cope with complex costs budgeting; significant growth in costs lawyers’ practices; and judicial inconsistency undermining the regime – these are just some of the findings of ...
