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Irish Tax Reform needs further improvements
June 5th, 2014
The European Commission has described Ireland’s system of labor taxation as fragmented and complex, has criticized its range of value-added tax (VAT) rates, and called for improvements to environmental taxes. The comments are made in the Commission’s latest package ...
How Should We Tax the Digital Economy?
May 29th, 2014
The European Commission has received the final report of the High-level Expert Group on Taxation of the Digital Economy. This independent group was asked to examine key issues related to taxing the digital economy in the EU, and to ...
Facebook seeks to buy WhatsApp
May 28th, 2014
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) has asked the European Union to review its plan to buy Internet messaging service WhatsApp. The Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday that instead of risking long-term delay to individual country review of the deal, that ...
Credit Agricole Said to Accuse EU of Bias in Euribor Case
May 28th, 2014
Credit Agricole SA (ACA), which refused to settle an antitrust probe over Euribor manipulation, accused European Union regulators of bias and said they should step down from the case, according to two people with knowledge of a letter the ...
CySec: regarding fx financial instruments
April 25th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), has issued a press release informing the Cyprus Investment Firms (‘the CIFs’) about the following: 1. Concerns have been raised about the lack of harmonisation between the EU Member States on where ...
The billion-dollar bash – how post-crisis investigation work is changing the way law firms advise banks
April 11th, 2014
With banks setting aside eye-watering sums of money to meet liabilities generated by the fallout from the financial crash, in-house legal departments and law firms are having to rethink their business models. Alex Newman reports By any standards, $23bn ...
Cyprus: A Mediterranean island slowly rebuilding after crisis
April 11th, 2014
Cyprus, the tiny Mediterranean island bailed out a year ago, remains “in difficulty…but not as bad as one would have expected,” its finance minister Harris Georgiades told CNN during an interview in the capital city Nicosia. The country, which ...
Greek bond order book soars to €17.5bn
April 10th, 2014
Greece has attracted a staggering €17.5bn order book for its eagerly anticipated return to the bond market – and banks are still taking bids. The final size of the five year deal is yet to be confirmed but banks ...
Google keeps throwing googlies over its market dominance
March 28th, 2014
If Google is found to be again gaming the system with its latest package of reforms, EU sanctions must be brought In June last year, in an article for Comment is free, I drew attention to Google’s efforts to ...
CySec: consultation by ESMA
March 27th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission would like to draw the attention of Issuers with securities admitted to trading on the Cyprus Stock Exchange or any other regulated market, their shareholders and other stakeholders, to the Consultation launched by ...
