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Google Grilling: Search Giant Faces More Questions Over Tax Deal With UK Government
February 11th, 2016
Earlier this month Alphabet, the parent company of Google, granted Google CEO Sundar Pichai almost $200 million in stock options. That sum, generous by any measure, is greater than the $185 million Google agreed to pay a week earlier to settle British tax issues covering the past ...
HSBC Sued Over Drug Cartel Murders After Laundering Probe
February 10th, 2016
Civil action claims traffickers committed terrorist acts Bank accused of aiding and abetting Sinaloa, other cartels Families of U.S. citizens murdered by drug gangs in Mexico sued HSBC Holdings Plc, claiming the bank can be held responsible for the deaths ...
Five UK Fund Giants Partner up to Join the Blockchain Bandwagon
February 9th, 2016
In a recurring theme to confirm the financial industry’s collective fawning of blockchain technology – the distributed ledger that underpins Bitcoin – five of the UK’s biggest mutual fund giants are collectively exploring blockchain applications. The motivation? Cutting billions ...
Google’s Sundar Pichai becomes highest-paid CEO in US
February 9th, 2016
Pichai received 273,328 shares, company filing shows, bringing his holdings in Alphabet to $650m – still far less than the net worth of Google’s founders The boss of Google, Sundar Pichai, has been awarded $199m (£138m) worth of shares, making ...
HMRC condemns Growth Securities Ownerships Plan
February 9th, 2016
TAX AVOIDANCE schemes that are based on contracts for difference have been labelled “ineffective” by HMRC as it looks to challenge any employer that’s using the initiative. These claims by the tax department come nearly seven years after a major ...
Bitcoin: A 21st Century Currency Explained By a Wall Street Veteran
February 8th, 2016
Jason Leibowitz is a former Wall Street professional who pivoted careers in 2014 to focus full-time on digital currency. In this paper, Leibowitz answers questions about how bitcoin was created, how it works and why it matters. It has been ...
What will the UK’s future in Europe be like?
February 4th, 2016
UK in the EU: MEPs debate proposed reforms ahead of referendum What will the UK’s future in Europe be like? The day after European Council President Donald Tusk proposed a settlement in response to UK demands for reforms, MEPs ...
SEC Charges Lending Company and Brokerage Firm With Fraud
February 4th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced fraud charges against a Manhattan-based lending company and its owner accused of repeatedly lying to investors purchasing high-yield securities. The SEC also charged the brokerage firm that acted as the placement agent and two ...
London Capital Group issued a Pre-close trading update
January 27th, 2016
London Capital Group Holdings plc has issued an announcement to inform the following trading update in respect of the financial year ended 31 December 2015. The Group expects to publish its results for the year ended 31 December 2015 ...
Seabury FXone and Spotex Enter Into Joint Product Offering
January 27th, 2016
Agreement Expands Companies’ Global Network of Institutional Clients Seabury Financial Solutions LLC (“FXone”), a subsidiary of Seabury Group LLC (“Seabury”) and a provider of FX liquidity management solutions announced that the company entered into a Joint Product Offering with ...
