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ActivTrades signs HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter
March 23rd, 2017
ActivTrades is the first finance broker to sign the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter, which supports gender diversity in the financial services industry. Created in March 2016, the Charter has gathered the support of over 120 leading financial ...
HM Treasury, the BoE and the Financial Conduct Authority announce Fair and Effective Markets Review
June 12th, 2014
The British government has announced in a press release publishing the Fair and Effective Markets Review the strategic steps to follow in order to raise standards of conduct in the financial system. The review was conducted jointly by the Treasury, the ...
Citi Launches Enhanced Treasury Diagnostics Global Benchmarking Tool
October 21st, 2015
Citi announces the release of the newly enhanced version of Citi Treasury Diagnostics (“CTD”), an award-winning, web-based benchmarking tool designed to help corporates assess their treasury and working capital practices against industry peers and best-in-class companies. The new release ...
HMRC raids two popular football clubs in UK in tax fraud allegations; Reports for arrests
April 27th, 2017
HMRC officials went to St James’ Park, where Newcastle have been celebrating a move back up to the Premiership, and also to the former Olympic stadium which is now home to the Hammers. There have been reports that the ...
New Treasury report claims lawyers will be worse off as result of Brexit
April 21st, 2016
A new report issued by the Treasury has claimed lawyers and other professional services will be worse off if Britain leaves the European Union (EU) because of a reduction in access to the single market. The 200-page document, titled ...
HMRC Welcomes Bank Bonus Tax Scheme Ruling
March 22nd, 2016
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has welcomed a court ruling against a major tax avoidance scheme used by banking giants UBS and Deutsche Bank, in which the agency successfully argued that the scheme had been designed to avoid around ...
Four senior KPMG partners arrested in HMRC tax evasion inquiry
November 27th, 2015
Accountancy firm places most senior staff in Northern Ireland on administrative leave pending tax evasion inquiry Four senior executives from the Belfast office of accountancy firm KPMG have been arrested in Belfast on alleged tax evasion charges. The four partners were ...
The Treasury Market Sees A Rate Hike Next Month… Maybe
November 24th, 2015
Fed Chair Janet Yellen yesterday reaffirmed the case for keeping interest rates near zero percent and raising rates slowly in the future. But the Treasury market seemed to have a mixed reaction. The 2-year yield–widely followed as the most-sensitive ...
Algorithmic Trades May Fall Under FCA’s Conduct Rules
July 9th, 2015
Bankers responsible for the algorithms that power high-speed trading may come under increased scrutiny as the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority considers expanding its conduct rules to wholesale market activities. People who manage trading algorithms as well as those who can approve ...
ICAP Said to Consider Circuit Breakers for Treasury Bond Trading
June 5th, 2015
ICAP Plc, which runs one of the world’s biggest electronic Treasury trading platforms, is considering circuit breakers as a safeguard against extreme volatility, according to a person familiar with the matter. ICAP has discussed with clients the possibility of ...
