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HSBC switches auditors to PwC after decade with rivals KPMG
March 19th, 2015
HSBC yesterday announced plans to appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as its auditor, replacing KPMG which had held the position since 1991. Europe’s biggest bank said the appointment would be put to shareholders at its 2015 annual general meeting on 24 April, ...
Greek Parliament Passes Antipoverty Bill
March 19th, 2015
International creditors had asked Greece to hold off on voting until they assessed budget impact Greek lawmakers passed an antipoverty bill Thursday despite not having the green light from international creditors on the law, in the latest snag in ...
Russia Deposit Fight Sees Foreign Banks Seeking New Clients
March 19th, 2015
Oksana Semenikhina, a customer of Citigroup Inc.’s Russian unit for the past decade, got an offer from the lender this year that she couldn’t pass up. “They offered to open a ruble term deposit for me at 9 percent ...
Riksbank cuts repo rate to −0.25 per cent and buys government bonds for SEK 30 billion
March 18th, 2015
There are signs that inflation has bottomed out and is beginning to rise, but the recent appreciation of the krona risks breaking this trend. The Executive Board of the Riksbank has decided to make monetary policy even more expansionary ...
Commerzbank publishes 2014 Annual Report
March 18th, 2015
In the 2014 financial year Commerzbank attained an operating profit of EUR 684 million. The net profit of the Bank increased in the year under review to EUR 264 million, following on from EUR 81 million in the previous ...
Second largest Luxembourg AIFM chooses Linedata for Regulatory Reporting Solution
March 18th, 2015
Linedata (NYSE Euronext: LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, today announced that MUGC Lux Management S.A. (“MUGC LM”), the management company of Mitsubishi UFJ Global Custody S.A. (“MUGC”), both members of Mitsubishi ...
Grant Thornton on the end of £49m negligence claim
March 18th, 2015
The UK arm of the world’s sixth largest accountancy network is facing the claim for audit and advice work provided to Manchester Building Society between 2006 and 2013. The claim relates to ‘the implementation and application of hedge accounting’, ...
Citibank Plans to Exit Custody Business in Argentina
March 18th, 2015
Citibank said Tuesday it will exit the custody business in Argentina, following a ruling by a U.S. court preventing it from passing on interest payments from the South American country to local bondholders. In a letter to U.S. District ...
Citigroup, Barclays Close to Settling Forex Lawsuit With Private Investors
March 18th, 2015
Citigroup Inc. and Barclays PLC are expected to pay as much as $800 million combined to settle a lawsuit with investors who say the banks manipulated foreign-exchange rates, according to people close to the situation. The expected settlements would ...
GAIN Capital Receives Shareholder Approval for Acquisition of City Index Limited
March 17th, 2015
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP) (the “Company” or “GAIN Capital”) announced today that its common shareholders have overwhelmingly approved the acquisition of City Index Limited at a special meeting of shareholders held on March 12, 2015. The nearly universal shareholder support for ...
