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FCA fines five banks £1.1 billion for FX failings
November 12th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has imposed fines totalling £1,114,918,000 ($1.7 billion) on five banks for failing to control business practices in their G10 spot foreign exchange (FX) trading operations: Citibank N.A. £225,575,000 ($358 million), HSBC Bank Plc £216,363,000 ...
HMRC letters warning of £1m fines hit tax firms
November 12th, 2014
The first batch of avoidance experts who could be both publicly denounced by HM Revenue & Customs and forced to reveal their clients’ names has been written to by the tax department. The advisers, who HMRC regards as potentially ...
European Antitrust Regulators to Hold Discussions With Google’s Rivals
November 12th, 2014
European antitrust regulators will hold discussions with the companies most concerned by Google’s business practices before deepening existing investigations or resolving them, the new competition commissioner for the European Union said Tuesday. Google has faced an increasing barrage of ...
Regulators fine global banks $3.4 billion in forex probe
November 12th, 2014
Global regulators imposed penalties totaling $3.4 billion on five major banks, including UBS (UBSN.VX), HSBC (HSBA.L) and Citigroup (C.N) on Wednesday for failing to stop their traders from trying to manipulate foreign exchange markets. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) and JP ...
IFSB issues paper on Islamic Finance Regulation
November 11th, 2014
The Working Paper is issued in parallel to the Exposure Draft (ED-17) of the Standard on Core Principles for Islamic Finance Regulation (Banking Segment), and provides the background and wider context for the Standard that is under preparation by ...
ESMA consults on revised EMIR standards on the reporting to trade repositories
November 11th, 2014
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today published a consultation paper on the revision of the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) and implementing technical standards (ITS) in relation to the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The ESMA RTS/ ITS deal ...
Credit Without Banks: Shadow Banking
November 10th, 2014
One of the vivid lessons of the 2007-2009 recession and financial crisis is that in the modern economy, one can’t just think about the financial sector as made up of banks and the stock market. Other financial institutions can ...
No Longer Business as Usual in China
November 10th, 2014
With heads of state and corporate chieftains in Beijing for a major economic summit meeting this week, China’s increasing economic nationalism is expected to be heavily debated. China is changing the rule book for business, forcing multinational companies to ...
JSE successfully implements Phase 2 of T+3 project
November 10th, 2014
The JSE has successfully completed the second phase of the JSE’s number one priority project, the T+3 project. The project is being implemented in three phases, and will result in the local equities market moving from the current T+5 ...
Luxembourg’s Tax Rulings Discussed By New EU Commissioner
November 10th, 2014
The European Commission has not yet formed an opinion on two contested tax rulings provided by the Luxembourg Government to multinational companies, and it has yet to formally respond to the recent leak of previous rulings, the new Competition ...