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A Former Credit Suisse Banker Has Pleaded Guilty in an U.S. Offshore Tax Case
July 20th, 2017
A former Credit Suisse Group AG banker from Switzerland pleaded guilty on Wednesday to participating in a wide-ranging scheme to help Americans hide millions of dollars in offshore accounts to evade U.S. taxes. Susanne Rüegg Meier, a former manager ...
UK introduces measures ending the supremacy of EU Law
July 14th, 2017
The UK government has begun the technical process of extricating the UK from the European Union by introducing a 66-page measure ending the supremacy of EU law. As expected, the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill would repeal the European Communities ...
The logic of a modern gold standard
July 14th, 2017
The logic of a modern gold standard In last week’s Insight, I analysed the current geopolitical situation and concluded that it was now in the interest of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation to break from the US dollar completely, ...
Cold calling scams defrauded more than one hundred victims
July 13th, 2017
SEC Announces Charges in Massive Telemarketing Boiler Room Scheme Targeting Seniors The Securities and Exchange Commission today brought fraud charges against 13 individuals allegedly involved in two Long Island-based cold calling scams that bilked more than one hundred victims ...
Assurance Capital Management and its owners fined $2.4 Million
July 12th, 2017
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a press release to inform that the Federal Court in Florida Orders Anthony J. Klatch II, Lindsey Heim, and their Company Assurance Capital Management, LLC to Pay More than $2.4 ...
The U.S. dollar weakened on Trump Jr. Emails; Yen, Korean won lead currency gains
July 12th, 2017
The U.S. dollar weakened against its G-10 peers and European equity futures rose as attention turned to central bank policy after markets were rattled by reports of Donald Trump Jr.’s contact with a Russian lawyer. U.S. equity futures were ...
iSignthis announced partnership agreement with Worldline
July 12th, 2017
iSignthis is pleased to announce that we have entered into an agreement with Europe’s leading payment and transactional payment service provider, Worldline . The agreement will allow iSignthis eMoney Ltd (“ISXPay”), a subsidiary of iSignthis Ltd, to ...
Why free trade and open markets in financial services matter; Andrew Bailey, FCA Chief Executive
July 11th, 2017
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the conduct regulator for financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, has released a speech by Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive of the FCA, at Reuters Newsmaker event. According the release: Note: this ...
The pound, euro, Canadian dollar, yen and kiwi were all down; Investors Review
July 11th, 2017
Stocks in Asia edged higher as investors awaited a potential new catalyst for further moves — the U.S. earnings season. Japanese and South Korean markets rose with volumes nearly a third below average, while Australia’s benchmark gave up earlier ...
Former Audi manager charged. The reason?
July 7th, 2017
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday said it has charged a former Audi manager with directing employees at the company, a division of Volkswagen AG, to design software to cheat U.S. emissions tests in thousands of Audi diesel cars. ...
