Ernst & Young to Pay $11.8 Million for Audit Failures
October 19th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that Ernst & Young LLP has agreed to pay more than $11.8m to settle charges related to failed audits of an oil services company that used deceptive income tax accounting to inflate ...
Multinational law firm has elected a new European senior partner
October 19th, 2016
It was announced today that King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has elected Frankfurt partner Michael Cziesla as its new EUME Senior Partner. Michael takes up the position with immediate effect and for a term of three years. Michael is a leading ...
Head of Back Office (Client Funding)
October 18th, 2016
The Back Office Department at ForexTime is the the department within our Customer Relations Diviison which deals with the processing of transactions and client funds. We are looking for a strong, responsible and hard working person, someone that likes ...
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange launched Blockchain for eVoting Services
October 17th, 2016
Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) announced in GITEX Tech Week its launch of Blockchain technology for eVoting services. The launch is considered the first of its kind for the MENA region financial markets as it employs the latest innovations ...
ATM Explosive Attacks surge in Europe
October 17th, 2016
In a European ATM Crime Report covering the first six months of 2016 EAST has reported that ATM explosive attacks were up 80% when compared to the same period in 2015. A total of 492 explosive attacks were reported, ...
Fixed FX? Now for the rest of the front office
October 16th, 2016
The forex fines were big headlines back in 2014. Since then, the FCA, and firms themselves, have done a huge amount to fix ineffective controls and ensure that FX traders couldn’t behave in a way that would damage the ...
How not to manage a currency
October 15th, 2016
Make no mistake, sterling’s collapse is a very serious development, and has serious consequences for sterling interest rates. While it is becoming apparent that interest rates are going to have to rise possibly for all currencies on a one-year ...
Russia Suspends U.S. Auditor Deloitte
October 14th, 2016
U.S auditing company Deloitte has been sanctioned by Russia‘s Federal Treasury, the Kommersant newspaper reported Wednesday. The Russian Treasury suspended Deloitte and Touche CIS from Russia’s self-regulatory Auditing Chamber of Russia, preventing the company from taking part in tenders or entering into new contracts for ...
World’s First Publicly-Traded Law Firm Facing Securities Class Action
October 14th, 2016
There’s a cautionary tale playing out in Australia over what can happen when law firms take money from outside investors, something that’s still prohibited here in the U.S. Slater & Gordon became the world’s first publicly-traded law firm back in 2007, ...
SFC commences cybersecurity review on brokers’ internet and mobile trading systems
October 13th, 2016
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has launched a review to assess the cybersecurity preparedness, compliance and resilience of brokers’ internet and mobile trading systems (Note 1). The review followed a number of reports from securities brokers that the ...
