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Big Banks Cutting Tens Of Thousands Of Jobs; Huge Implications
September 16th, 2015
Money center banks — which over the past few decades have grown into the biggest financial entities the world has ever seen — appear to have hit a wall, and are now shedding tens of thousands of workers. Three ...
GDP up by 0.4% in both euro area and EU28
September 8th, 2015
Second estimate for the second quarter of 2015 GDP up by 0.4% in both euro area and EU28 +1.5% and +1.9% respectively compared with second quarter of 2014 Seasonally adjusted GDP rose by 0.4% in both the euro area ...
PayPal Announces Launch of PayPal.Me Peer-to-peer Payments Similar to Square Cash or Bitcoin Wallets
September 4th, 2015
Receiving money from a friend, client or anyone else on PayPal just got a little bit easier. Today, the company announced the launch of PayPal.Me, a personal, vanity PayPal link that makes it easy to remind people to send ...
Citi sells Hungary consumer banking business to Erste Group
September 2nd, 2015
Citigroup Inc (C.N) agreed to sell its consumer banking business in Hungary to Austria’s Erste Group Bank AG (ERST.VI) as the third-biggest U.S. bank by assets continues to divest non-core operating businesses. The sale includes Citi’s retail banking, consumer ...
Tax Administration new report compares performance, best practices and trends in 56 tax administrations
August 17th, 2015
Tax administrations continue to face the challenges of improving their performance while reducing costs, decreasing compliance burdens for taxpayers tackling non-compliance. Improving taxpayer services, while making non-compliance harder, is helping revenue bodies increase their efficiency and allowing governments to ...
OECD updates anti-tax evasion list
August 4th, 2015
Europe’s attempts to clean up tax evasion and money laundering took a step forward yesterday when an international task group said that Austria — a eurozone nation that was until recently falling short —was almost fully compliant with new ...
Iran Oil Industry: How much Iran needs to bring it back to levels it was five year ago
July 30th, 2015
Iran needs around $100 bln to revamp oil industry – minister Iran needs around $100 billion to bring its oil industry back to the level it was five years ago, the country’s Industry Minister Mohammad Reza Nematzadeh told Austrian ...
IG Group Preliminary results for the year ended 31 May 2015
July 21st, 2015
IG Group announced today results for the year ended 31 May 2015 Operating and financial summary Good growth in revenue(1); underlying(2) up 8% at £400.2 million; reported up 4.9% at £388.4 million Reported results impacted by Swiss franc event ...
Swiss banks win German market access after long-running tax tiff
July 17th, 2015
Swiss banks can more easily take on clients in neighbouring Germany, the Swiss government said on Thursday, after a deal that ends a lengthy standoff between the two countries over hidden offshore accounts. Germany’s wealthy have traditionally been the ...
Emerging Challenges Facing Tax Policymakers and Administrations in the Area of International Taxation and Transfer Pricing
July 14th, 2015
From July 7-9, 2015, senior tax administrators and tax policy officials from 26 countries throughout Europe and Central Asia as well as experts from the WU University and the World Bank met in Vienna, Austria to share experiences and ...
