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UBS to Plead Guilty on Libor, Fined by Fed in Currency Probe
May 20th, 2015
UBS Group AG said its main unit will plead guilty to fraud in the U.S. for manipulating benchmark interest rates and pay $203 million in fresh fines after the Swiss bank violated an agreement that had allowed it to ...
FMA removes offshore firms from the Financial Services Provider Register – warnings issued against companies who fail to respond
May 19th, 2015
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) today confirmed that a number of offshore firms have recently been removed from the Financial Services Provider Register (FSPR). While the Registrar of Companies maintains the FSPR, the FMA has powers to direct the ...
Draghi Says ECB Policy Potent as Low-Rate Risks Monitored
May 15th, 2015
Mario Draghi said the European Central Bank’s non-standard measures have proven effective, and low interest rates haven’t yet led to financial imbalances. Unconventional actions “have proven so far to be potent, more so than many observers anticipated,” the ECB ...
UBS Guilty Plea for Libor Seen Opening Door to Political Battle
May 14th, 2015
UBS Group AG faces the prospect of making a guilty plea that would require it, along with four other giant global banks, to seek U.S. regulators’ permission to keep managing Americans’ money. Several law experts said that UBS may ...
U.S. Set to Rip Up UBS Libor Accord, Seek Conviction
May 13th, 2015
The U.S. Justice Department is set to rip up its agreement not to prosecute UBS Group AG for rigging benchmark interest rates, according to a person familiar with the matter, taking a new step to hold banks accountable for ...
Tullett Prebon plc: AGM Statement and Trading Update
May 6th, 2015
Tullett Prebon plc (the “Company”) is today issuing a trading update in relation to the period from 1 January 2015. This statement will be delivered to those attending the Annual General Meeting today. Business Update Although the level of ...
NBAD eyes up debt deals with export credit agencies as part of international expansion plan
May 4th, 2015
National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), the country’s biggest lender by assets, is keen to arrange debt for export credit agencies (ECAs) as part of plans to expand its loans portfolio. “I see an increasing role for export credit ...
Accounting threshold shifts risk lasting damage to audit profession
April 29th, 2015
Earlier this month, on 6 April, a new EC directive quietly slipped into force. The less than snappily titled Companies, Partnership and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2015 – the UK’s implementation of the EU Accounting Directive – passed onto the ...
Integral Launches First Subscription-Based FX Exchange
April 29th, 2015
$275 per month for unlimited screen-based trading Direct, indirect and resting order liquidity in a single book Open to all market participants Integral Development Corp., the leading OTC FX network, today announced the public availability of OCX™, the Open ...
Flash crash trader to face court again
April 29th, 2015
A UK financial trader accused of contributing to the 2010 Wall Street “flash crash” is due to appear in court again on Wednesday. Navinder Singh Sarao, who first appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday when he said he ...
