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Deutsche Bank’s Birmingham legal team is growing
May 16th, 2014
Deutsche Bank has appointed a new head of legal for its Birmingham office, charged with growing the department’s size and the range of business-critical advice it provides to the bank across Europe, Asia and Africa. Jonathan Marshall joined the ...
Clifford Chance, Eversheds and Allen & Overy triumph at Middle East awards
May 16th, 2014
Clifford Chance (CC), Eversheds and Allen & Overy (A&O) were the main law firm winners at the third annual Corporate Counsel Middle East Awards last night (15 May), which saw CC named International Law Firm of the Year, while ...
Detroit Creditors Seek to Defend Pension Debt in Lawsuit
May 16th, 2014
A bond insurer wants the chance to fight Detroit’s effort to cancel $1.4 billion in pension debt, while the city is asking a judge to take a bus tour of its blighted areas before ruling on its $18 billion ...
Credit Suisse Said Close to Guilty Plea, $2.5 Billion Accord With U.S.
May 16th, 2014
Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) is close to reaching an agreement to plead guilty and pay about $2.5 billion to the U.S. Justice Department and regulators to resolve investigations into whether it helped Americans evade taxes, three people familiar ...
Demand for Venture Capital Outstripping the Supply
May 15th, 2014
Fewer entrepreneurs expect to be able to tap traditional venture capital funds in 2014, but corporate venture money may help fill the gap. As talk of a tech bubble spreads, a handful of tech stocks have pulled back in ...
Tax Reform Is Not a Fantasy
May 15th, 2014
U.S. companies are stockpiling a record amount of foreign earned profits abroad, roughly $2.1 trillion. The amount of cash held overseas by U.S. multinationals is up 93 percent since 2008. And Uncle Sam receives a near-zero return on foreign ...
Geithner Must Give S&P Documents in U.S. Fraud Suit
May 14th, 2014
Ex-U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner must comply with Standard & Poor’s demand that he provide documents related to its claim the U.S. sued the company in retaliation for downgrading government debt. Harold W. McGraw III, chairman of S&P parent ...
InstaForex Becomes Latest Online Forex Broker to Launch Bitcoin CFD Trading
May 14th, 2014
The list of online forex brokers entering the bitcoin market and launching CFDs of the digital currency continues to increase during 2014. Starting with Plus500 and AvaTrade in 2013, along with eToro, FXOpen, and Markets.com and many other smaller ...
When Education Doesn’t Pay
May 14th, 2014
When I was in business school, back at the turn of the millennium, a team from my New Venture Strategy class proposed an innovative way to pay for school: sell shares of your future income to investors. I was ...
USD/JPY stops ahead of 100-day SMA
May 14th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook USD/JPY is struggling to pass through the formidable resistance at 102.38/16, which is required for a bullish outlook to be confirmed. However, the task is a difficult one, being that this supply zone consists of the major ...
