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Saudi $10 Billion Financial District Is Missing One Thing: Banks
April 20th, 2016
Saudi Arabia’s $10 billion financial hub in Riyadh will have gleaming towers connected by sky bridges, cutting-edge climate technology and a monorail that can circle the whole area in 11 minutes. What it doesn’t have yet are banks. Not ...
Once A Tax Haven, Gibraltar Now Says It’s Low-Tax
April 19th, 2016
Gibraltar, a tiny British territory at Europe’s southern tip, is famous for its geography — a huge limestone rock — that appears on the Prudential logo. It’s a global center for offshore banking, with the trappings of wealth to prove ...
Is Deutsche Bank’s Gold Manipulation The Main Scam Or Just A Side-Show?
April 18th, 2016
For years now, the easiest way to finesse a debate over whether precious metals markets are manipulated has been to say, “well, if they’re not manipulated they’re the only market that isn’t.” That was unsatisfying, though, because as the ...
Report suggests law firms are failing on customer service
April 18th, 2016
A new report suggests that there is a ‘disturbing level of tunnel vision’ among law firms when it comes to adopting modern customer service standards, which could ultimately make the difference between success and failure. The report by Peppermint Technology shows that law ...
Law ranks fourth in degree salary stakes
April 15th, 2016
New research has shown that ten years after graduating, male law students earn less on average than their peers who left university with degrees in engineering, economics and medicine—but around 20 per cent more than their own female classmates. ...
PricewaterhouseCoopers pays €37m to save Spanish employees from jail
April 14th, 2016
The accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has handed over €37m (£29m) to the Spanish government to save four of its former employees from serving lengthy jail terms for fraud. The four former senior executives, who include the firm’s ex-president Miguel Fernández de Pinedo, ...
Law Firms Boosting Investment in Marketing, Survey Finds
April 14th, 2016
In response to fierce competition for increasingly demanding clients, 56 percent of attorneys and marketing professionals expect their law firms to boost investment in marketing over the next two years, according to a survey published on Tuesday. More than two-thirds of respondents also ...
International law firm in merger talks with Pepper Hamilton
April 13th, 2016
The global law firm Reed Smith is in talks to combine with the smaller Pepper Hamilton of Philadelphia, the firms confirmed on Monday night. “Based on these preliminary discussions, we see many potential benefits to joining forces,” said a Reed ...
Swiss banker whistleblower: CIA behind Panama Papers
April 13th, 2016
Bradley Birkenfeld is the most significant financial whistleblower of all time, so you might think he’d be cheering on the disclosures in the new Panama Papers leaks. But today, Birkenfeld is raising questions about the source of the information ...
EU Nations Split Over Tax Rules on Controlled Foreign Companies
April 11th, 2016
Tax debate weighs on push to pass anti-fraud package by June Panama leaks give extra incentive to EU corporate-tax campaign European Union proposals to crack down on corporate-tax avoidance are getting stuck in a fight over how to curb ...
