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KPMG in hot water over HBOS collapse
December 16th, 2015
The “big four” auditing firm KPMG has found itself under renewed pressure over its role in signing off HBOS’s books in the years before the bank collapsed. The Bank of England/Financial Conduct Authority report did not specifically evaluate KPMG’s ...
Brokers Warned Not to Steer Clients’ Stock Trades Into Slow Lane
December 15th, 2015
Brokers have been put on notice: treat your customers’ orders as well as you treat your own. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Wall Street’s self-regulator, recently said firms using the fastest, most expansive price databases for their own stock trading must ...
Credit Suisse, Julius Baer eye bids for BTG Pactual’s Swiss unit
December 10th, 2015
Credit Suisse (CSGN.VX) and Julius Baer (BAER.VX) are among a handful of banks vying to buy the Swiss private-banking arm of embattled Brazilian investment bank Grupo BTG Pactual SA (BBTG11.SA) in a cut-price deal, sources with direct knowledge of ...
JPMorgan Said to Win Relief in SEC Case on Sale of Its Own Funds
December 10th, 2015
Bank to get consent to continue raising money for hedge funds SEC, CFTC may announce settlements with bank as soon as Friday JPMorgan Chase & Co. is close to settling cases that threatened to bar the bank from raising ...
Shale Doesn’t Swing Oil Prices—OPEC Does
December 10th, 2015
The oil cartel is still influential, and American shale can’t replace the world’s true “swing” producer. The breathtaking crash in oil prices has generated a new conventional wisdom: America’s shale oil industry has supplanted OPEC as the so-called “swing” ...
A Fateful Mistake Haunts Goldman Sachs
December 8th, 2015
Bank faces fresh allegations of share-count error tied to Tibco takeover Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is entangled in an increasingly contentious fight over a 2014 takeover on which it advised, underscoring the treacherous legal environment for mergers-and-acquisitions bankers. Goldman faces fresh allegations ...
Vatican appoints PricewaterhouseCoopers to audit accounts
December 7th, 2015
The Vatican has ordered the first ever external audit of its accounts as part of Pope Francis’ efforts to reform the Roman Catholic Church. The auditor, accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers, will start work immediately, a papal spokesman said. Pope Francis ...
Fifty individual shareholders sue Toshiba seeking $2.45 million in damages
December 7th, 2015
Fifty individual shareholders of Toshiba Corp sued the Japanese conglomerate in Tokyo on Monday, seeking 301.99 million yen ($2.45 million) in damages after the firm’s stock plunged in the wake of a multi-billion dollar accounting scandal. The lawsuit against ...
Bitcoin Fund Linked to Currency’s Rally
December 7th, 2015
Heavy trading in Bitcoin Investment Trust may have contributed to bitcoin price spike After months at $250, the price of the digital currency bitcoin took flight in early November, peaking above $450 before falling back to $360 more recently. ...
ESAs seek stakeholder input on automation in financial advice
December 4th, 2015
The Joint Committee of the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) – EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – has launched a Discussion Paper on automation in financial advice, aimed at assessing what, if any, action is required to harness the potential ...
