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SRA looks to the future, setting out a new regulatory model
November 27th, 2015
Solicitors Regulatory Authority has published a press release regarding how SRA looks to the future. According SRA: We have outlined our vision for the future, pushing ahead with a fundamental shift away from prescriptive rules in favour of protecting the ...
Israel joins international efforts to boost transparency and end tax evasion
November 26th, 2015
Israel signed today the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, making it the 91st jurisdiction to join the world’s leading instrument for boosting transparency and combating offshore tax evasion. The Convention provides for all forms of ...
Joint Press Release by the Bank of Israel, the Israel Securities Authority, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice, and the Israel Tax Authority
November 13th, 2015
The Joint Team to Promote Securitization in Israel publishes its final report, and recommends that the securitization market be developed cautiously and in a measured fashion by removing obstacles. The Interministerial Team for the Promotion of Securitization in Israel ...
SRA has shut down London-headquartered Solicitors firm
October 16th, 2015
SRA announces the closing down of Blavo & Co Solicitors Limited, the head office of which is based in John Street, London. This closure, called intervention, has taken place into the firm Blavo & Co Solicitors Limited and the ...
VC Head Believes Israel will Lead Blockchain App Industry
September 25th, 2015
The managing director of Santander Group’s venture capital firm believes that Israel will become a reference market for blockchain applications. Mariano Belinky, who has recently invested in an Israel-based payment application, expressed his faith in the technologically advanced nation, ...
SRA Compensation Fund pays out over £23 million
September 14th, 2015
The SRA Compensation Fund paid out over £23.8 million in the year to 31 October 2014, latest figures reported to the SRA Board meeting on Wednesday, 9th September, reveal. Grants are primarily paid from the Fund to compensate those ...
Bank of Israel to cut VAT, corporate taxes to buoy economy
September 4th, 2015
Israel will cut corporate and value-added taxes to help boost economic growth after it collected more tax than expected in recent months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. In a plan initiated by Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, VAT ...
The discovery of a “supegiant” gas field in Egyptian waters could be bad news for Cyprus and Israel while Greece push towards the privatization of its energy sector
September 3rd, 2015
The East Mediterranean energy play has been transformed overnight when the Italian energy company ENI announced the discover of a giant gas field off the coast of Egypt. Read More: Italy’s Eni discovers huge gas field off Egyptian coast Zohr, ...
Euronext expands global reach to Israel
September 1st, 2015
Regulatory approval given to onboard qualified Israeli firms directly for cash and derivatives Euronext, the leading exchange in the Eurozone, today announced that it has received approval from the Israeli Securities Authority (ISA) to allow Israeli based qualified trading ...
Bank of Israel imposed financial sanctions on an Israel bank regarding prohibition on Money Laundering and Terror Financing
June 29th, 2015
The Bank of Israel has issued a press release to inform that: On June 28, 2015, the Banking Corporations Sanctions Committee regarding the prohibition on money laundering and terror financing decided to impose a financial sanction of NIS 4.2 ...
