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Switzerland, Estonia Agree Double Tax Pact Change
September 1st, 2014
Switzerland and Estonia have signed a protocol to their double taxation agreement (DTA) to cut withholding tax rates and provide for the exchange of information on request. The protocol places a maximum tax withholding tax rate on dividends of ...
Merrill Lynch gets fine of $1.2 million for supervision failures
August 27th, 2014
The U.S. futures regulator said on Tuesday it had fined a unit of Bank of America Corp $1.2 million for failures to supervise the processing of fees charged to its customers over a period of three years. The Commodity ...
Interview with Danièle Nouy, Chair of the SSM
August 26th, 2014
Interview with Danièle Nouy, Chair of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), conducted by Theano Theiopoulou from Phileleftheros newspaper: 1. How is preparatory work for the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) progressing? Will everything be ready by 4 November? As ...
CySec introduces digital signature for ASP
August 22nd, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission has today announced the introduction of a digital signature for the submission of files to CySec. The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission aims to improve its procedure for secure transmission of the electronic ...
ASIC publishes supervision report
August 21st, 2014
The Australian regulator in its effort to enforce regulation has published its eighth report on market supervision to inform firms on compliance procedures. ASIC has published its eighth report on the supervision and surveillance of Australian financial markets and ...
China relies on WTO to ‘resolve differences’ and sign deal
August 18th, 2014
China said on Monday it regretted World Trade Organisation members had failed to reach an agreement on simplifying global customs rules, a breakdown it said could damage multilateral trade. India last month torpedoed a global deal to standardize and ...
Ernst & Young Role in Gowex Fraud Questioned
August 14th, 2014
Investors and the Madrid exchange are asking just who was verifying its financial statements, after the Wi-Fi hotspot provider, Let’s Gowex SA collapsed last month. Auditor Jose Diaz, of M&A Auditores, has been named as a suspect and jailed ...
CySec: Transitional provisions of the new AIF law
August 13th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement informing all interested parties that the Alternative Investment Funds Law (L.131(I)/2014) (the ‘Law’) came into force on July 27th 2014. The Law can be found on the Commission’s website, ...
SEC Charges Kansas for Understating Municipal Bond Exposure
August 12th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced securities fraud charges against the state of Kansas stemming from a nationwide review of bond offering documents to determine whether municipalities were properly disclosing material pension liabilities and other risks to investors. ...
Are banks looking at a shrunken future?
August 7th, 2014
Amid the hundreds of billions of bad-credit write-downs and the multibillion- dollar settlements with government watchdogs since the 2008 financial collapse, it’s easy to lose sight of what good shape banks are in. The leftover business from the crash ...