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Legal Revenue Grows as Elite Law Firms Set the Pace
April 6th, 2015
Tech sector, M&A fees help to make 2014 law industry’s best year since recession Last year, on average, was the best year for law firms since the recession. But averages can be misleading. Revenue at large, corporate law firms ...
AICPA Makes Suggestions on How Business Income Tax Can be Simplified
April 6th, 2015
In a letter submitted on Tuesday to the Senate Finance Committee Tax Reform Working Group on Business Income Tax, the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) made the following four recommendations about how to simplify business income tax. 1. Cash method of ...
Commencement of a New Bank to Offer Wealth Management Services for Individual Investors in Hong Kong
April 3rd, 2015
Establishing a wealth management bank through joint investment by Japanese and Hong Kong companies including Shinsei Bank, Monex Group, AD Capital, Convoy and Tokyu Livable, and to commence operations in the First Half of Fiscal Year 2015 Shinsei Bank, ...
Citibank Seen as Target for Plea in U.S. Currency Case
April 3rd, 2015
The U.S. Department of Justice is pressing for Citigroup Inc.’s main banking subsidiary to plead guilty to a felony tied to the rigging of foreign-exchange markets, according to two people briefed on the matter. Citigroup has countered with an ...
EU lawyers: EU cannot maintain protection against Chinese imports
April 3rd, 2015
EU lawyers say EU cannot ignore rules on China‘s new WTO status EU yet to decide, could favour China to win favour with Beijing European fears of being forced to lower tariff defences against cheap Chinese imports have grown following a confidential ...
IBM hire advisers to deal with restless investors – sources
April 3rd, 2015
Some top shareholders of IBM, disappointed by 11 straight quarters of falling revenues, are seeking help from activist investors to shake up the company, but have been turned down by both Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square and Jeffrey Ubben’s ValueAct, ...
Greek goverment not so convinced by its own measures
April 3rd, 2015
Fresh confusion reigned on Thursday as a result of the government’s target for the primary budget surplus and new measures for 2015, as proposed to Wednesday’s Euro Working Group teleconference. The target set by the bailout agreement is for ...
ISDA Outlines Path Forward for Centralized Execution of Swaps
April 2nd, 2015
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today published a set of principles aimed at promoting regulatory consistency in the development and application of centralized trading rules for derivatives. The execution of standardized derivatives on an exchange or ...
JPX: Trading Overview for FY2014 & March 2015
April 2nd, 2015
Japan Exchange Group released the trading overview (preliminary estimates) for FY2014 & March 2015. Cash Equity Market In FY2014, trading volume for domestic TSE 1st Section stocks (excluding preferred stock) was 601.47256 billion shares, the second highest on record, ...
Joint Open Access Letter to the European Securities and Markets Authority
April 2nd, 2015
A letter has been sent to Steven Maijoor, Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority, regarding open access provisions within the MiFID II Regulatory Technical Standards, co-signed by Michael Spencer, chief executive of ICAP, Xavier Rolet, chief executive ...
