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HSBC whistleblower spills Lynch evidence to Senate
February 19th, 2015
Massive drug, terrorism scandal ropes in Obama’s AG nominee The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday conducted a two-hour session with HSBC whistleblower John Cruz in its investigation of attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch’s role in the Obama administration’s decision ...
Dangers involved in Money Laundering
February 9th, 2015
Money laundering statures have a very broad ambit and the duty is firmly on banks and financial institutions to “Know their clients” and to avoid transactions that may assist clients in disguising and concealing the sources of their money. ...
RBS to become biggest player in the peer-to-peer lending referral market
January 23rd, 2015
RBS has announced that it is set to give thousands of small British businesses greater access to finance by formally referring customers to both Funding Circle and Assetz Capital. From next week customers, who the bank is unable to ...
The first stage in the washing cycle – Placement (video)
January 19th, 2015
Placement Placement is the first stage of the money laundering process. It is the process of placing, through deposits or other means, unlawful cash proceeds into traditional financial institutions. At this stage cash derived from criminal activity is infused ...
New Visa Europe Interchange Programme: Opportunity for Merchants and Acquirers
January 2nd, 2015
Early 2015, Visa Europe will introduce their so-called Cross Border Domestic Interchange Programme (CBDIP). This programme will cap interchange fees for domestic transactions processed by European cross-border acquirers. This seems to be excellent news for merchants as it could ...
What type of liquidity does Cyprus need?
December 9th, 2014
There has been a lot of discussion recently, especially after the successful outcome from the stress tests of our main banks, that it’s time for the banks to start offering liquidity to the market to fund growth in our ...
SNB Threatening Negative Rate Awaits Draghi’s Next Move
December 9th, 2014
Swiss National Bank officials have their eyes on one man: Mario Draghi. The prospect of the European Central Bank intensifying stimulus by purchasing government bonds has weakened the euro, pushing the franc to within 0.2 percent of the SNB’s ...
Clive Palmer case in court: dense legal wrangling with a cast of hundreds
November 27th, 2014
Big money, big legal teams and a big call to make against a larger-than-life tycoon turned political phenomenon. But at the end of another round of labyrinthine legal argument, the accusations against Clive Palmer made by his former Chinese ...
Legal Fight Pits Sellers of Energy Against Buyers
November 27th, 2014
Over the past few years, the federal government has nurtured the growth of an odd kind of player in the energy markets: companies that recruit consumers to unplug themselves when electricity use is high, in exchange for a price ...
The Abundant Commodity That’s Becoming Harder to Find
November 27th, 2014
Bauxite, one of the most common ores in the earth’s crust, is growing scarce. It’s been 10 months since Indonesia banned exports of bauxite, used to extract aluminum, in a bid to transform its mining industry, and the global market is still ...
