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Companies attacked for ‘potentially misleading’ debt collection letters
July 4th, 2014
A string of banks and utilities have today given details of how they sent letters to customers under other names. This is a practice that is being criticised by some consumer campaigners and MPs as potentially misleading. The letters ...
Can investors win in a new era of accounting?
July 4th, 2014
Big changes over global accounting standards go into effect in 2017, and they could greatly influence how profitable companies are perceived. Like an operating system runs a computer, revenue makes a company go; nothing happens until somebody sells something. ...
Regulator says EU Banks Must Shun Bitcoin Until Rules in Place
July 4th, 2014
European Union banks should shun virtual currencies such as Bitcoin until a system of rules to prevent abuses are put in place, according to the bloc’s top banking regulator. The European Banking Authority called on the EU to develop ...
FCA warning against clone firm
July 4th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British financial regulatory authority, has issued a warning informing the investors that “BPEFX / BPE” (http://bpefx.com/en/index.asp) is a clone firm, thus, is not permitted to provide any financial services or products. Furthermore, FCA points ...
Revealed: the banks using ‘pseudo’ solicitor firms to make debtors pay up
July 4th, 2014
Britain’s high-street banks are routinely issuing legal demands from what appear to be independent firms of solicitors designed to make struggling borrowers pay up. Yet the firms are not regulated by the legal profession’s watchdog, and are simply names ...
SRA approves PII reform
July 4th, 2014
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is forging ahead with its plans to cut the minimum compulsory cover for professional indemnity insurance (PII) from £2m to £500,000, despite strong opposition from the Law Society and criticism from the Legal Services Consumer ...
Piketty with Chinese Characteristics
July 4th, 2014
In his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty argues that capitalism aggravates inequality through several mechanisms, all of which are based on the notion that r (the return on capital) falls less quickly than g (growth ...
ASIC shuts down unlicensed foreign exchange trading
July 4th, 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) following its strict financial regulatory policy has commenced action in the NSW Supreme Court to stop Vault Market Pty Ltd and its sole director, Mr MD Anamul Amin, of Wiley Park, New South ...
Barclays chairman warns on FX regulation
July 4th, 2014
The foreign exchange market needs “fine tuning” rather than heavy handed reform, the chairman of Barclays argued on Thursday, as he unveiled a new compliance academy aimed at raising standards within the bank. Sir David Walker said that while ...
Consequences for failing to comply with financial statement filing obligations
July 3rd, 2014
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has filed charges against the directors of eight companies that raise funds from the public, for breaches of the Financial Reporting Act (FRA). “Filing financial statements on time is a basic requirement for companies ...
