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UK tax authorities pay record £605,000 to informants
June 15th, 2015
Amount paid by HMRC to reward tip-offs rises by 50% in a year in bid to recoup tens of billions lost annually to tax fraud The amount of money paid to informants by HMRC in its attempts to crack down on ...
Saxo Bank gets more personal with clients amid trend to go digital
June 15th, 2015
As banks push ahead with digital services and scale back their branch networks, one investment bank says its retail brokerage business is growing in part because of the human touch. Fadi Mehdi, the head of Saxo Bank’s representative office ...
Deutsche Bank’s grip on Asia FX market may slip on Jain’s exit
June 11th, 2015
The exit of Deutsche Bank co-chief executive Anshu Jain may see the lender surrender its strong position in Asia’s fast growing foreign exchange and fixed income markets, with incoming CEO John Cryan expected to cut some of the capital-intensive ...
S&P Cuts Ratings on European Banks
June 10th, 2015
Deutsche Bank, RBS, Barclays are among the banks being downgraded Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services cut its credit ratings on several European commercial banks on Tuesday, saying it considers the prospect that the governments would provide extraordinary support to ...
Asian shares swoon, dollar on defensive
June 9th, 2015
Asia shares sank in a sea of red on Tuesday as speculation of U.S. rate rise as early as September hit emerging markets generally, while failing to give a lasting lift to the dollar. A steady start soon gave ...
Justice Department Readies New Bank Settlements
June 5th, 2015
Federal and state officials are preparing the next round of billion-dollar mortgage settlements involving U.S. and European banks Up to nine banks are in line for the next round of billion-dollar payments related to soured mortgages as federal and ...
FTSE 100 companies to cough up £24bn in legal liabilities
June 3rd, 2015
Companies forced to delay dividends and sell off assets to pay legal costs FTSE 100 companies have warned their shareholders they face total legal liabilities of £24bn, according to Thomson Reuters. Raichel Hopkinson, head of the practical law dispute ...
China’s PMI records slight improvement
June 3rd, 2015
China‘s manufacturing activity improved slightly in May, while the service sector continued to weaken, indicating complications in the world’s second-largest economy, a survey showed yesterday. The official Purchasing Managers’ Index, a comprehensive gauge of operating conditions in large state-owned ...
Citi keeps top spot in FX trading as European banks slump: poll
May 27th, 2015
European banks Deutsche Bank, Barclays and UBS have seen their market share in foreign exchange trading slump in the past year, as U.S. banks led by Citigroup (C.N) grabbed business, according to widely watched industry rankings. Citigroup kept its ...
LCH.Clearnet launches buy-side clearing of FX derivatives in Europe
May 26th, 2015
European offering expands on ForexClear’s US client clearing model Four banks signed up as clearing brokers Variety of account structures provide end users with increased protection and asset segregation LCH.Clearnet Limited (“LCH.Clearnet”), the global clearing house, today announced ...