Search Results for: financial institutions
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 ...
Germany Brings FATCA Law Into Force
August 6th, 2014
Germany’s Ministry of Finance announced that a law enabling the implementation of the United States’ Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) has come into force. The ministry said that the FATCA-USA Implementation Regulation, known in German as FATCA-USA-Umsetzungsverordnung or ...
Big Banks’ ‘Living Wills’ Get Failing Grade
August 6th, 2014
Wall Street banks spent two years asking U.S. regulators what they should put in hypothetical bankruptcy plans to prove they aren’t “too big to fail.” The agencies broke their silence yesterday with a grade: Fail. The Federal Reserve and ...
EU regulation concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s actions
August 4th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) informs the Cyprus Investment Firms, Management Companies, Administrative Services Companies and Regulated Markets (‘the Regulated Entities) about the publication in the Official Journal of the European Union, on July 31, 2014, of ...
Corporation tax and CGT
August 1st, 2014
Summarize of the key measures in Finance Act 2014, Andrew Goodall sets out the main corporation tax and capital gains tax provisions in part one of the act. Corporation tax Rates Finance Act 2013 fixed the main rate for ...
Economic sanctions on Russia from EU and U.S.
July 30th, 2014
EU governments have agreed to impose sweeping sanctions on Russia, targeting state-owned banks, imposing an arms embargo and restricting sales of sensitive technology and the export of equipment for the country’s oil industry, in response to Moscow’s continued backing ...
OECD Releases New Tax Info Exchange Standard
July 23rd, 2014
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on July 21, 2014, released its new global Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters, hailing the move as another important step towards greater tax transparency and ...
Saudi Arabian stock market to open to foreign investors
July 22nd, 2014
Saudi Arabia’s stock market will open up to foreign investors for the first time, the country has announced. The move, which should happen in the first half of 2015, sparked a 3% rise in the Tadawul index in early ...
IA ANALYSIS: FATCA is stranger than fiction
July 22nd, 2014
FATCA was implemented worldwide at the beginning of this month, but the impact (and costs) are only now just beginning to filter through to the financial services community. Part of the US Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (HIRE), ...
Argentina asks U.S. judge to put debt payment order on hold
July 22nd, 2014
Argentina asked a U.S. judge on Monday to put on hold an order requiring it to pay bondholders who did not participate in debt restructurings following the country’s 2002 default, while it seeks a “global resolution.” Ahead of a ...
