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Singapore Says More Overseas Criminals Seek Bank Accounts
July 2nd, 2014
Singapore prosecuted a record number of money laundering cases and seized more than S$115 million ($92 million) of suspected criminal proceeds in 2013 as more overseas offenders seek out bank accounts in the city. “Singapore’s openness as an international ...
Twitter hires former Goldman Sachs banker as CFO
July 2nd, 2014
The Goldman Sachs banker who took social media platform Twitter public has been hired to be in charge of its finances. Anthony Noto, the former US bank’s co-head of telecoms, media and technology, has been recruited as part of Twitter’s ...
Offshore Tax Crackdown Opens With 30% Penalties for Banks
June 30th, 2014
The Internal Revenue Service is about to get an unprecedented look at bank accounts and investments U.S. citizens hold abroad, through a law that is making it harder to hide assets from the tax collector. Tomorrow, the U.S. government ...
Six banks sued over trustee roles
June 19th, 2014
A group of big investors including Blackrock and Pimco are suing six different banks including Deutsche Bank and HSBC for their role as trustees of mortgage-backed securities in the lead up to and during the financial crisis. In six ...
Europe Bankers Cringe at Rising U.S. Fines Amid BNP Probe
June 12th, 2014
HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) Chairman Douglas Flint had some advice for bank executives meeting in London last week: Read up on how the U.S. uses financial warfare against its enemies in a foreign-policy shift that’s entangling lenders. Since HSBC ...
Deutsche Bank cap hike delay due to court bottleneck
June 5th, 2014
Deutsche Bank’s (DBKGn.DE) plans for an 8 billion euro ($11 billion) capital hike came to an abrupt halt on Wednesday when a procedural bottleneck in a German court forced Germany’s flagship lender to delay the issue by several days. ...
Fed may shun global risk rules banks spent billions to meet
June 4th, 2014
The Federal Reserve may scrap international measures aimed at assessing bank health in favor of imposing its own rules, frustrating bankers who have spent billions of dollars retooling their books to meet global standards. Fed officials are concerned that ...
The New Paradigm for Banks
May 30th, 2014
Why are U.S. banks having a harder time making money? It’s a question that extends well beyond business models, operating environments and market valuations to the role they play in the economy, during good times and bad. Financial institutions ...
Credit Suisse Offers Guidance to 13 Swiss Banks in U.S. Tax Probes
May 26th, 2014
Thirteen Swiss banks face rising stakes in criminal tax-evasion probes after Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) set a new standard for punishment in the U.S. crackdown on offshore tax evasion. Julius Baer Group Ltd., Zuercher Kantonalbank and the Swiss ...
Springtime for Bankers
May 19th, 2014
By any normal standard, economic policy since the onset of the financial crisis has been a dismal failure. It’s true that we avoided a full replay of the Great Depression. But employment has taken more than six years to ...