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Internal and External Risks to the Cyprus Economy
February 20th, 2015
Despite the tragic events of March 2013, Cyprus economy has showed resilience and the country was able to return back to stability and regain some of the lost confidence from international markets and investors rather quickly, which is necessary ...
Investors Still Don’t Think Greece Will Exit the Euro
February 20th, 2015
As Greece heads toward 11th-hour funding talks with its euro-area membership on the line, bondholders are surprisingly sanguine about its failure so far to secure a deal. Forget the strategists at Commerzbank AG who say there’s a 50 percent ...
HSBC whistleblower spills Lynch evidence to Senate
February 19th, 2015
Massive drug, terrorism scandal ropes in Obama’s AG nominee The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday conducted a two-hour session with HSBC whistleblower John Cruz in its investigation of attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch’s role in the Obama administration’s decision ...
CySec: Withdraw of CIF authorisation
February 19th, 2015
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has issued an announcement informing that: On its meeting of 2 February 2015, has decided, pursuant, of section 25(1)(c) of the Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets ...
CySec announces the suspension of the authorisation of CIF ‘Pulp International Business Ltd’
February 19th, 2015
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that: The authorisation of the Cyprus Investment Firm ‘Pulp International Business Ltd’, number 095/08, is suspended, pursuant to section 26(2) of the Investment Services and ...
Online court proposed to resolve claims of up to £25,000
February 16th, 2015
Civil justice council calls for internet-based dispute resolutions system similar to eBay’s to be available within two years The UK justice system should receive a radical overhaul for the digital age with the creation of an online court to ...
Self protection against money laundering
February 16th, 2015
There is much that both financial and non-financial businesses can do to take the initiative and implement their own money laundering prevention measures. The framework for such prevention measure for protection against money laundering is: Know your administration Know ...
HSBC files: Swiss bank hid money for suspected criminals
February 13th, 2015
HSBC’s Swiss bank concealed large sums of money for people facing allegations of serious wrongdoing, including drug-running, corruption and money laundering, leaked files reveal. Despite being legally obliged since 1998 to make special checks on high-risk customers, the bank ...
Russian Asset Sales Muddy Sanction Compliance
February 13th, 2015
U.S. Companies Already Have to Contend With Complex Rules In recent months, Boris and Arkady Rotenberg—Russian businessmen and friends of Vladimir Putin —have sold off assets to their sons that include holdings in a Gazprom drilling contractor and the sleek Finnish Langvik Congress ...
Former Petrobras CEO Weighs In on Corruption Probe
February 12th, 2015
Gabrielli Says He Feels Like ‘David Fighting Goliath,’ Denies Any Wrongdoing José Sergio Gabrielli, the former chief executive of Petróleo Brasileiro SA, presided over one of the brightest periods in the state-owned oil giant’s history. During his tenure, from 2005 to ...
