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First Europe entry for giant employment law firm
October 8th, 2015
Littler Global Enters Europe with Expansion Into Germany Germany’s Leading Labor and Employment Firm, vangard, Joins Littler’s Global Platform Littler has issued an announcement to inform that has added vangard, a leading labor and employment law boutique in Germany, to ...
ASIC report on market integrity
October 7th, 2015
ASIC achieved 11 significant enforcement outcomes relating to market misconduct in the first six months of this year. Details of these and other achievements feature in Report 450: Market integrity report: 1 January to 30 June 2015, along with key ...
EU Court Says Data-Transfer Pact With U.S. Violates Privacy
October 7th, 2015
Decision will affect about 4,500 companies that move, store personal data The European Union’s highest court on Tuesday struck down a trans-Atlantic pact used by thousands of companies to transfer Europeans’ personal information to the U.S., throwing into jeopardy ...
ASIC bans two persons from providing financial services
October 6th, 2015
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued today two announcements to inform public that the Commission decided to ban two persons in different cases from providing financial services. According the first announcement, ASIC informs that, it has ...
How the Big Four have returned to consulting with a bang
October 2nd, 2015
Whether by acquisition, organic growth or the recruitment of experienced hires, the Big Four have established consultancy groups that singly and collectively are a force to be reckoned with. According to analyst firm Gartner, spending on management consultancy services increased ...
EY recruits over 4500 people and breaks £2b milestone in the UK
October 2nd, 2015
8% growth takes revenue over £2b Record 95 equity Partners join the UK Partnership – over a third are women New office opens in Canary Wharf Growth reported across all service lines and regions Distributable profits up 6% from ...
SEC Charges Two Grant Thornton Firms With Violating Auditor Independence Rules
October 2nd, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Grant Thornton India LLP and Australia-based Grant Thornton Audit Pty Limited with auditor independence violations that occurred when two Grant Thornton Mauritius partners served on the boards of Mauritius-based subsidiaries of companies ...
CFTC Orders Deutsche Bank AG to Pay a $2.5 Million Civil Monetary Penalty
October 2nd, 2015
CFTC Orders Deutsche Bank AG to Pay a $2.5 Million Civil Monetary Penalty for Swaps Reporting Violations and Related Supervision Failures CFTC Finds that Deutsche Bank Did Not Diligently Address and Correct Errors until after Bank Was Notified of ...
“Bitcoin’s PayPal” : Why the Cryptocurrency Is Not a Good Payment Mechanism
September 30th, 2015
Leading Bitcoin startup BitPay is cutting costs, suggesting that the currency won’t be catching on soon. In 2014, a Bitcoin startup called BitPay raised $30 million from investors and was dubbed the “PayPal of Bitcoin” for helping companies such as Microsoft ...
ORC appoints new regional management to support growth in the Americas
September 29th, 2015
Orc, the global market leader in electronic trading technology for listed derivatives, today announced management changes to support growth in the Americas region. Orc has appointed Jesper Alfredsson as President Orc Americas and Oscar Jönsson as Vice President Sales, ...
