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HSBC faces fresh legal battle over forex manipulation allegation
June 7th, 2017
HSBC is facing a fresh law suit over allegations of forex manipulation. The bank’s traders are being accused of manipulating the markets for their own profit more than a decade ago, according to the Financial Times. ECU Group, a ...
Uber is paying its NYC drivers ‘tens of millions’ because of an accounting error that underpaid them for years
May 24th, 2017
An accounting mistake means that Uber has been short-changing its drivers in New York City for years. On Tuesday, the company announced that it will be repaying drivers “tens of millions” after it took more than its share of ...
Sullivan & Cromwell to open Brussels office with antitrust hire
May 22nd, 2017
Sullivan & Cromwell, the US corporate law firm, has poached a senior European competition lawyer to open its first new office in nearly two decades based in Brussels. Michael Rosenthal is joining S & C as partner to work ...
EBA consults on its guidance for the use of cloud computing
May 19th, 2017
The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation setting out its guidance for the use of cloud service providers by financial institutions. The EBA Recommendations intend to clarify the EU-wide supervisory expectations if institutions intend to adopt cloud ...
Update on Brexit
May 14th, 2017
This article looks at the background to Brexit negotiations and concludes that Britain is negotiating from a position of strength, while the EU is increasingly in a position of financial difficulty. Not only will the European Commission be forced ...
Smirnoff owner Diageo to pay HMRC £107m in ‘Google tax’ crackdown
May 12th, 2017
Drinks company will challenge HMRC claim for tax and interest over ‘diverted profits’ Diageo, the drinks company behind Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and Guinness, is to pay HMRC £107m under the “Google tax” crackdown aimed at multinationals. The FTSE 100 ...
Business cycles are credit cycles
May 7th, 2017
This article gets to the heart of why central banks’ monetary policy will never succeed. The fundamental error is to regard economic cycles as originating in the private sector, when they are the consequence of fluctuations in credit. It ...
EU court backs airlines over bird strike claims worth £11m
May 5th, 2017
Lawyers pursuing claims for flight delays have suffered a rare court defeat in a judgment that could scupper thousands of potential claims. The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled today that a collision between an aircraft and ...
The legal war between Uber and Waymo
May 4th, 2017
It promised to be an eye-opening battle royale between tech giants. So let’s check in with Uber and Waymo, the ride-hailing app maker and the Google self-driving car spinoff, which are duking it out in court. When autonomous vehicle ...
CFTC charges individual with fraudulently soliciting commodity futures customers
May 3rd, 2017
CFTC Charges Pennsylvania Resident William H. Powderly IV with Fraudulently Soliciting Commodity Futures Customers and Distributing False Account Statements The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed an enforcement action in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, ...
