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Law Firms’ Accounts Pose Money-Laundering Risk
December 27th, 2016
Law Firms’ Accounts Pose Money-Laundering Risk Hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly siphoned from Malaysian state fund 1MDB passed through firms’ pooled accounts in U.S., prosecutors say Tens of billions of dollars every year move through opaque law-firm bank ...
SEC Charges Operators of Fake Day-Trading Firm With Defrauding Inexperienced Investors
December 22nd, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two men behind a phony day-trading firm with pocketing more than $1.4 million in deposits from hundreds of defrauded investors worldwide. The SEC alleges that Naris Chamroonrat of Bangkok, Thailand, recruited Adam ...
CFTC Orders Goldman Sachs to Pay $120 Million Penalty for Attempted Manipulation
December 22nd, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order today filing and settling charges against The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., and Goldman, Sachs & Co. (collectively, Goldman or the Bank). The Order finds that, beginning in January 2007 ...
Washington proposes $7bn fine on Credit Suisse in mortgage claims
December 21st, 2016
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked Credit Suisse to pay a $5 billion-$7 billion penalty over its sale of toxic mortgage securities in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Reuters reported. The Swiss bank has reportedly ...
World-first listing on CISE for global bitcoin fund
December 21st, 2016
Global Advisors Investment Fund plc (GABI) has today been admitted to the Official List of the Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE) to become the first regulated bitcoin fund to be listed on any exchange globally. The CISE has approved ...
BDO reports Global revenues rise to US$7.6 billion
December 15th, 2016
FY16 global revenues up by 8% High number of strategic mergers – over 30 network-wide Commitment to digital transformation delivering leading-edge services to clients Growth spearheaded by BDO firms in US (+12%) and China (+13%) Long-term investment in ...
Basketball superstar Michael Jordan wins major China IP legal case
December 13th, 2016
Michael Jordan has notched a major win for his intellectual property in China, winning rights to the transliteration of his name Jordan in Mandarin. Last week, the Supreme People’s Court overturned two rulings by Beijing courts in the last ...
Two traders charged in $26 Million Stock Manipulation Scheme
December 13th, 2016
SEC Files Charges in $26 Million Stock Manipulation Scheme The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two New Jersey-based traders with manipulating more than 2,000 NYSE- and NASDAQ-traded stocks and reaping more than $26 million in profits from their ...
Enforcement Director Andrew J. Ceresney to Leave SEC
December 9th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Enforcement Director Andrew J. Ceresney will leave the agency by the end of the year. During his nearly four years as head of the agency’s largest division, Mr. Ceresney implemented approaches ...
Switzerland moves to end banking secrecy
December 5th, 2016
Today, the Federal Department of Finance (FDF) initiated the consultation on introducing the automatic exchange of information (AEOI) in tax matters with a series of other countries. The AEOI with these countries should enter into force on 1 January ...
