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‘Big Four’ audit firms never examined over illegal tax plans
January 18th, 2016
Regulators fail to act as they are dominated by the companies they are supposed to police, say critics Audit and accountancy firms who devise tax-avoidance schemes ruled unlawful have never faced official reprimand, The Independent can reveal. None of the so-called ...
Austrians get (some) mainstream credibility
January 15th, 2016
Well, well: who would have believed it. First the Bank for International Settlements comes out with a paper that links credit booms to the boom-bust business cycle, then Britain’s Adam Smith Institute publishes a paper by Anthony Evans that ...
Switzerland Weathers the Superstrong Franc
January 15th, 2016
It was in a small, wood-paneled boardroom overlooking Lake Zurich that Thomas Jordan and his colleagues at the Swiss National Bank made a decision that caught global markets unawares, infuriated Swiss industrial leaders, and tipped the economy dangerously close ...
Nasdaq Launches New, Innovative Investor Relations Platform, Nasdaq IR Insight™
January 15th, 2016
Platform Designed With Extensive Client Collaboration to Capture the Investor Relations Workstream, Improve Data Intelligence and Enhance Decision Making Facilitates and Drives Efficiency of an IR Program by Providing a Single Data Solution Launch Marks the First Step in Wider ...
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs
January 15th, 2016
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Improper Securities Lending Practices The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Goldman, Sachs & Co. has agreed to pay $15 million to settle charges that its securities lending practices violated federal regulations. According to the ...
Digital Technologies: Huge Development Potential Remains Out of Sight for the Four Billion Who Lack Internet Access
January 14th, 2016
A new World Bank report says that while the internet, mobile phones and other digital technologies are spreading rapidly throughout the developing world, the anticipated digital dividends of higher growth, more jobs, and better public services have fallen short ...
HMRC admits to winding up inquiry into HSBC tax evasion claims
January 14th, 2016
Only one person was prosecuted following claims the bank turned a blind eye to illegal activities of hundreds of wealthy customers HM Revenue and Customs has wound up its inquiries into claims that hundreds of British customers used HSBC’s ...
Bank of England maintains Bank Rate at 0.5% and the size of the Asset Purchase Programme at £375 billion
January 14th, 2016
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets monetary policy in order to meet the 2% inflation target and in a way that helps to sustain growth and employment. At its meeting ending on 13 January 2016, the ...
SEC Charges 11 Bank Officers and Directors With Fraud
January 14th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against 11 former executives and board members at Superior Bank and its holding company involved in various schemes to conceal the extent of loan losses as the bank was faltering ...
Are Bitcoin and Litecoin here to stay?
January 14th, 2016
How Bitcoin & Litecoin Could Fail One the most influential inventors of a cryptocurrency doesn’t believe that his invention, or Bitcoin for that matter, are necessarily here to stay. Litecoin was designed by Charlie Lee to be the so-called ...
