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SEC Charges Goldman Sachs
January 15th, 2016
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Improper Securities Lending Practices The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Goldman, Sachs & Co. has agreed to pay $15 million to settle charges that its securities lending practices violated federal regulations. According to the ...
VAT MOSS traders question business status
January 12th, 2016
Businesses caught up in the EU VAT changes are considering if they are actually “in business” and within the scope of the VAT MOSS scheme, following a recent HMRC briefing document. The tax authority’s latest guidance states that the compliance rules only apply “where supplies are made ...
Law firms win pay battle with RBS as Clifford Chance, Linklaters and Allen & Overy reappointed
January 12th, 2016
The tug of war between The Royal Bank of Scotland and its go-to law firms over a proposed pay freeze ended in victory for the lawyers, as Magic Circle firms Clifford Chance (CC), Linklaters and Allen & Overy (A&O) won appointments to the bank’s legal ...
HMRC: Lin Homer to step down as HMRC CEO in April
January 12th, 2016
Lin Homer has announced today that she is to leave HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in April, after more than four years as Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary and a public service career spanning 36 years. Lin Homer joined HMRC in ...
Hedge fund manager barred from managing client money until 2018
January 11th, 2016
Steven A. Cohen Barred From Supervisory Hedge Fund Role SEC Examinations and Independent Consultant Reviews Also Part of Settlement The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen will be prohibited from supervising funds that manage ...
Thomson Reuters FX Volumes
January 11th, 2016
Covering all spot, forwards, swaps, options and non-deliverable forwards traded on Thomson Reuters platforms Each month Thomson Reuters publishes combined average daily volumes for its FX electronic trading platforms Matching, FXall and the Thomson Reuters SEF. The volumes figures ...
Tech trends 2016: Cybersecurity in the connected world
January 5th, 2016
This year, cybersecurity will be the main issue vexing global business, firms say, and it will become more critically important as the internet of things takes off and our world becomes ever more mobile and connected. Lawyers, accountants, digital ...
United States Files Complaint Against Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche for Alleged Clean Air Act Violations
January 5th, 2016
The Department of Justice, on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), today filed a civil complaint in federal court in Detroit, Michigan, against Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Volkswagen Group of America Inc., Volkswagen Group of America Chattanooga Operations ...
Scammers Impersonate the DFSA’s Chief Executive and Barclays Bank PLC UAE, in an Advance Fee Scam
December 29th, 2015
The DFSA alerts the financial services community and the public to an Advance Fee Scam in which: the DFSA’s Chief Executive; and the name of Barclays Bank PLC UAE (Barclays), and one of its employees, are fraudulently impersonated. The way ...
11 Bitcoin Startups That Went Bust in 2015
December 28th, 2015
This year was a time of further consolidation for the bitcoin industry. After what you might call a ‘Wild West’ period (when it seemed everyone with the urge was setting up their own bitcoin-based service), the space is now rapidly becoming ...
