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KYC: ‘Increased Guidance’ From Regulators Will Help Treasury
October 14th, 2015
During the opening session of the compliance forum at Sibos 2015, regulators discussed the intense scrutiny being placed on banks to crack down on money laundering and terrorist financing. That scrutiny has been passed along to banks’ corporate clients, ...
Regulatory authorities of Italy and Belgium warn the public for unauthorised investment firms
October 13th, 2015
The Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (Consob), the regulatory authority of Italy and the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), the regulatory authority of Belgium, have issued “Warning” announcements to inform investors and public for companies ...
Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax despite £35m staff bonuses
October 12th, 2015
Social networking firm paid average of £210,000 to staff in Britain, but overall loss in UK of £28.5m meant very little corporation tax was due Staff at Facebook’s UK arm took home an average of more than £210,000 last ...
Shareholder lawsuit against Volkswagen in Germany
October 9th, 2015
US litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has been instructed in a shareholder lawsuit against car maker Volkswagen (VW) after the company lost as much as $33bn in market value in ten days after it admitted to cheating emissions tests. ...
China launches cross-border payment system
October 8th, 2015
China’s cross-border interbank payments system, established as a yuan-based alternative to the interbank Swift network, has launched with 11 domestic banks and eight foreign institutions onboard. The CIPS platform will be used to support cross-border goods and services trade ...
TAX: OECD presents outputs of OECD/G20 BEPS Project for discussion at G20 meeting
October 5th, 2015
Reforms to the international tax system for curbing avoidance by multinational enterprises The OECD presented today the final package of measures for a comprehensive, coherent and co-ordinated reform of the international tax rules to be discussed by G20 Finance Ministers at ...
Greece Could Return to Bond Markets Soon, Tsipras Says
September 30th, 2015
Greek prime minister warns that Europe’s migration crisis could harm efforts to turn around fragile economy Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said his country could return to bond markets soon, if it reached a debt-restructuring deal with creditors in the coming ...
BNY Mellon Expands Global Payments Infrastructure by Adding Foreign Exchange Payments
September 10th, 2015
New functionality will significantly increase straight-through processing rates for clients BNY Mellon, a global leader in investment management and investment services, has passed an important milestone in the continuing development of its global payments infrastructure with the launch of ...
Commission presses Member States on VAT revenue collection
September 9th, 2015
VAT revenue collection has failed to show significant improvement across EU Member States according to the latest figures released by the European Commission. Based on VAT collection figures from 2013, the overall difference between the expected VAT revenue and the amount ...
The danger of eliminating cash
September 4th, 2015
In the early days of central banking, one primary objective of the new system was to take ownership of the public’s gold, so that in a crisis the public would be unable to withdraw it. Gold was to be ...
