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StanChart faces fresh $300m US settlement
August 19th, 2014
Standard Chartered is in talks to pay up to $300m to New York’s top banking regulator to settle allegations it failed to identify suspicious transactions. New York’s Department of Financial Services could announce the settlement as soon as this ...
Abe finding it hard to get his way on defence
August 19th, 2014
On 1 July, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced a decision to broaden the interpretation of the Japanese Constitution to enable Japan to exercise its right to collective self-defence. But to what extent will the Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF) ...
Ex-Rabobank trader guilty in Libor probe
August 19th, 2014
A former employee of Rabobank on Monday became the second of the Dutch bank’s ex-traders to plead guilty in a criminal plot to manipulate a global financial benchmark used to set rates on trillions of dollars in loans. United ...
Bitcoin’s price falls, but without serious trading consequences
August 19th, 2014
The last few days bitcoin has been in a bit of a downturn. On Monday, the price of Bitcoin dropped nearly 12 percent, to $435.60 from $492.95, according to the virtual currency website CoinDesk, its lowest value since May ...
PwC takes on Aussie legal market
August 18th, 2014
Former King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) partners Tony O’Malley and Tim Blue, who set up a Sydney boutique earlier this year, have joined accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to launch an Australian legal services arm. PwC Australia chief executive Luke ...
Expo Milano 2015 Tax Breaks Announced
August 18th, 2014
In advance of the next Universal Exposition, which will be held from May 1 to October 31, 2015, in Milan, the Italian Revenue Agency has issued details of favorable tax treatment for Expo Milano 2015 participants. Within an agreement ...
Serious Fraud Office probes banks’ loan schemes
August 18th, 2014
The Serious Fraud Office is looking into allegations of high street banks misusing government schemes designed to boost lending to small businesses, the Times reported on Sunday. The Times reported that the UK’s main anti-fraud agency is investigating banks’ ...
US banks plan ahead for UK exit from EU
August 18th, 2014
Wall Street banks are drawing up preliminary plans to move some London-based activities to Ireland to address concerns that the UK is drifting apart from the EU. People familiar with Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley told the ...
Quinn Emanuel, Stewarts and Bird & Bird gear up for RBS rights battle
August 18th, 2014
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and litigation boutique Leon Kaye have formally joined the £4bn shareholder battle brought against the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) over its 2008 rights issue. Leon Kaye, Quinn Emanuel, Stewarts Law and Bird & ...
Monster’s 1.3bn deal with Coca-Cola under Skadden and Jones Day advice
August 18th, 2014
Coca-Cola Company gets advise from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Jones Day, among other, for its deal with energy drink business Monster. The global drinks brand is also to pay $2.15bn (£1.3bn) in exchange for a 16.7 ...
