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Argentina says ‘many creditors’ want to swap into local law debt
September 5th, 2014
Many investors are interested in swapping global Argentine bonds for paper governed by local law, cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich said on Friday, a day after the Senate approved the proposed debt exchange as a way to circumvent U.S. court ...
Nation of Privilege Versus Rule of Law
August 29th, 2014
These days, the word “privilege” has been reduced to a trite buzzword. That’s a shame, because it used to mean more than just being born into advantageous circumstances. The word, which means “private law” in old French, originally referred ...
Digital vs. Virtual Currencies
August 25th, 2014
There’s a lot of misunderstanding around the terms “virtual” and “digital,” and people often mistakenly use them interchangeably. The reality is that virtual currencies are a type of digital currency, meaning that all virtual currencies are digital, but the ...
Roche to acquire Drug Maker InterMune for $8.3 Billion
August 25th, 2014
The Swiss drug maker Roche is buying InterMune, a specialist in treatments for breathing diseases, for $8.3 billion, as pharmaceutical firms continue to seek new products to bolster their offerings. The Swiss drug maker Roche agreed on Sunday to ...
Deepening Gloom in Australia Poses Challenge to RBA
August 18th, 2014
A deepening gloom across the largest developed economy to escape recession during the global financial crisis is shaping up as one of the toughest challenges yet for Reserve Bank of Australia chief Glenn Stevens. While policy makers from the ...
New non-dom tax rules will cause confusion
August 14th, 2014
New tax rules for loans taken out by “non-doms” will cause disputes over the interpretation of the law, the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) has said. The government said on 4 August that it was withdrawing its current treatment ...
Comments and Petitions: How the BitLicense Will Affect the Future of Bitcoin
August 11th, 2014
When Ben Lawsky and the NYDFS met with key players in the Bitcoin community earlier this year, there were many questions of what the committee would propose and how it would affect Bitcoin entrepreneurs, businesses and the future of ...
Foreign Firms under Chinese antitrust law
August 11th, 2014
It was only last month that 100 antitrust investigators probe simultaneously into four of Microsoft’s offices across China, executing “surprise visits” where the vice president and other managers were interrogated and data was collected. It appears that Chinese regulators ...
Samsung’s next reinvention challenge is ‘reinvent itself’ & to be more innovative
August 7th, 2014
As its smartphone sales stutter and a generational leadership succession looms, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is under pressure to reinvent itself – to be more innovative, but not lose the rigor and focus that made it a global powerhouse. ...
T-Mobile deal collapse could spark telecom price war
August 7th, 2014
Sprint Corp’s (S.N) newly appointed Chief Executive Marcelo Claure has so far had a Midas touch in the telecoms industry, turning Brightstar, a reseller of U.S. handsets to Latin America, into a distributor valued at $2.2 billion when it ...
