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Microsoft, Google Join Rivals to Back Apple in FBI Fight
March 4th, 2016
Tech competitors argue privacy, security threatened in case San Bernardino shooting victim among those supporting Apple Tech giants including Microsoft Corp. and Google set aside often fierce rivalries to back Apple Inc. in its fight against a judge’s order ...
Apple lawyer, FBI director face off in Congress on iPhone encryption
March 1st, 2016
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation will make their cases before a congressional panel on Tuesday regarding a court order to force the technology company to give the FBI data from the iPhone belonging ...
Apple Goes to the Supreme Court
February 25th, 2016
The Justices should hear the e-book antitrust case. The Supreme Court may consider as early as Friday whether to take an appeal of one of the great antitrust abuses of recent decades, and the economic import is far larger ...
HSBC Posts 4th-Quarter Loss and Comes Under S.E.C. Scrutiny
February 23rd, 2016
HSBC said on Monday that it lost money in the fourth quarter and warned that it was being investigated for hiring candidates with ties to government officials in the Asia-Pacific region. The lender, which is based in Britain but generates ...
VimpelCom will pay to resolve probes in the second largest global anti-corruption settlement in history
February 19th, 2016
Amsterdam-based telecommunications operator VimpelCom Ltd on Thursday said it would pay $795 million (£555 million) to resolve U.S. and Dutch probes into a bribery scheme in Uzbekistan, in the second largest global anti-corruption settlement in history. The settlement was ...
Last Wave on Libor: CFTC Likely to Charge Multiple Banks for Rate Rigging
February 16th, 2016
Citigroup, HSBC are among firms targeted by regulators, according to people close to the probe American banks have so far escaped the billions of dollars in fines that have been levied by U.S. and British regulators leading a global ...
Morgan Stanley to pay $3.2 billion to settle financial crisis-era charges
February 12th, 2016
Morgan Stanley (MS.N) will pay about $3.2 billion to settle charges that it misled investors in residential mortgage-backed securities that later soured during the financial crisis, federal and state officials said Thursday. The case stems from an investigation by the ...
Commonwealth report calls for clearer legislation for virtual currencies
February 5th, 2016
Virtual currencies offer countries a cost-effective, fast and accessible alternative to settling financial payments, but unclear laws and regulations are preventing their responsible development and encouraging their exploitation by criminals, says a new Commonwealth report. Virtual currencies, which allow ...
Which country is the World’s Favorite New Tax Haven?
January 28th, 2016
The World’s Favorite New Tax Haven Is the United States Moving money out of the usual offshore secrecy havens and into the U.S. is a brisk new business. Last September, at a law firm overlooking San Francisco Bay, Andrew ...
Osborne: India to liberalise legal services
January 25th, 2016
George Osborne today announced a raft of trade deals with his counterpart in India that include opening up the country’s legal market to foreign lawyers. The chancellor and Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley have reached a number of agreements ...
