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Draghi throws door to QE wide open as recovery wanes
November 21st, 2014
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi threw the door wide open on Friday for more dramatic action to rescue the euro zone economy, saying “excessively low” inflation had to be raised quickly by whatever means necessary. Draghi said there was now ...
FCA fines RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank Ltd £42 million for IT failures
November 20th, 2014
The FCA has taken this action against the Banks for failing to put in place resilient IT systems which could withstand, or minimise the risk of, IT failures. The actual cause of the IT incident was a software compatibility ...
Weidmann: “Government bond purchases harbour major moral hazard”
November 18th, 2014
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has spoken out against possible plans to expand the Eurosystem’s balance sheet by way of government bond purchases on the part of the euro-area central banks. “Such purchases might create new incentives to run up debt, ...
RBS embraces crypto-currencies in hackathon challenge
November 17th, 2014
A team from RBS took top honors at the Deloitte Digital #GoneHacking capital markets hackathon on Friday with a trading platform that utilised the Ripple protocol to handle integration with crypto-currencies. RBS built on top of its existing FXMicropay ...
EU says Starbucks’ Dutch tax deal may be illegal
November 14th, 2014
A deal between Starbucks Corp’s (SBUX.O) and Dutch authorities may be illegal state aid as it allows the world’s biggest coffee chain to make payments on a lower corporate income tax base, European Union antitrust regulators said on Friday. The comments ...
New Payment Systems Regulator sets out how it will regulate the £75 trillion industry
November 14th, 2014
The new Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) today sets out how it proposes to regulate the £75 trillion payments industry when it becomes fully operational on 1 April 2015. The proposals will further the PSR’s three objectives: to promote competition, ...
Accountant arrested over suspected £2m VAT fraud
November 7th, 2014
An accountant is among four people arrested in dawn raids yesterday on suspicion of a £2.2m VAT fraud. The four men, three from Essex and one from Hertfordshire, allegedly set up an elaborate scheme of subcontractors within the civil ...
Accountants Warn Against UK 50 Percent Income Tax Rate
November 5th, 2014
High earners in the UK would pay 24 percent more tax than the current global average if the Labour Party succeeds in reintroducing the 50 percent tax rate, according to international accountants UHY Hacker Young. According to the firm, ...
Twenty-four European banks fail financial stress tests
October 27th, 2014
One in five European banks have failed crucial tests of their financial strength, leaving a €25bn (£19.6bn) capital hole in the continent’s banking system at a time of renewed fears that the five-year long eurozone crisis may be flaring ...
Facebook pays no UK corporation tax for a second year
October 23rd, 2014
Facebook paid no UK corporation tax for the second year in a row in 2013, while employees received shares in the company worth tens of millions of pounds. The world’s largest social media company reported a pre-tax loss of ...
