Search Results for: financial institutions
Improvements Looked For In IRS External Leads Program
August 28th, 2014
Participation in the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) External Leads Program is growing, resulting in the receipt of a significantly larger volume of leads about questionable tax refunds, but the agency is not always verifying the leads timely, ...
Swiss Bank Pictet Reveals Results for First Time
August 26th, 2014
The Swiss private bank Pictet Group reported its financial results publicly for the first time in its 209-year history on Tuesday, showing a profit and highlighting continuing changes in Switzerland’s traditionally secretive banking culture. Pictet, a privately held wealth ...
Judge scolds Argentina, but no contempt order
August 22nd, 2014
Nation’s plan to evade legal orders, failing to make required payments to U.S. bondholders is illegal. According to a federal judge in Manhattan, Argentina’s plans to evade his orders by failing to make required payments to U.S. bondholders is ...
HKMA reaction to US sanctions over StanChart
August 20th, 2014
Following the New York Department of Financial Services allegations against Standard Chartered Bank as announced yesterday, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has issued a notice informing that it has taken note of the action. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) ...
How Money is Made
August 20th, 2014
Last month, the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) announced the establishment of their own development bank, which would reduce their dependence on the Western-dominated, dollar-focused World Bank and International Monetary Fund. These economies will benefit ...
PWC fined $25m regarding Bank of Tokyo consult issues
August 19th, 2014
PWC has been fined $25m (£15m) and banned from some consulting work for two years by New York State’s financial regulator because of misconduct during work at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. The deal, agreed yesterday with New York’s Department of ...
Lawmakers criticize Fed’s crisis lending program
August 19th, 2014
Federal Reserve was urged to limit its crisis lending programs for big banks from a bipartisan group of lawmakers. During the crisis, the Fed invoked its emergency lending powers to pump cash into Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and other banks ...
Five Australian banks face class actions on fees
August 12th, 2014
Australian legal firm Maurice Blackburn said on Tuesday it had filed open class actions against five banks over late credit card fees worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The legal proceedings could become one of Australia’s biggest ever class ...
American taxpayers abandon U.S. before register to FATCA
August 11th, 2014
The U.S. Treasury Department has published indicative numbers illustrating the number of 1 577 United States taxpayers giving up their passports or their green cards in the first half of this year. The increasing number of individuals doing so, ...
New accounting standard rule against banks’ losses from loans
August 11th, 2014
A new international accounting standard, IFRS 9, will set as requirement that banks should set aside more money in order to protect against losses from customers who can’t repay loans. The new rule will come into effect in 2018 ...
