Search Results for: Serious Fraud Office
Barclays faces £700m legal action
January 29th, 2016
Barclays has confirmed it is being sued for more than £700m by deal-maker Amanda Staveley in connection with its emergency fundraising in 2008. The Financial Times reported that Ms Staveley’s firm, PCP Capital Partners, had taken legal action against ...
Convict Libor brokers only if they played ‘significant’ role, UK jury told
January 22nd, 2016
Jurors in Britain’s second Libor trial were instructed on Thursday not to convict the six former brokers in the dock unless evidence showed they played a “significant” part in an alleged plot to help convicted trader Tom Hayes rig ...
Six former brokers acted as ‘well-oiled machine’, Libor trial hears
January 14th, 2016
Defendants conspired with convicted trader Tom Hayes to manipulate inter-bank lending rate, prosecution tells court Six former brokers acted as a “well-oiled machine” to assist convicted trader Tom Hayes to rig Libor interest rates, a court has heard. Summing ...
Euribor trial: 11 former Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Societe Generale employees set for first court appearance over rate fixing allegations
January 11th, 2016
Nearly a dozen people accused of manipulating a key rate of lending between European banks are due to make their first appearances in court this week in the latest of several rate rigging prosecutions brought by the Serious Fraud Office. 11 former employees of Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Societe ...
HMRC pushes ahead with criminalising failure to prevent tax evasion
December 11th, 2015
New offence could become a ‘damp squib’ ignored by foreign companies, warns tax lawyer HMRC is to go ahead with a bid to create a new criminal offence for failure to prevent tax evasion, despite warnings of significant challenges ...
Standard Bank to Pay $4.2 Million to Settle SEC Charges
December 1st, 2015
Bank Agrees to $36.9 Million Global Settlement with the SEC and the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Standard Bank Plc with failing to disclose certain payments in connection with debt issued by the ...
CFTC charges IB Capital FX and agents for Forex Trading case
November 17th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement Complaint charging Defendants IB Capital FX, LLC (a/k/a IB Capital FX LLP) d/b/a IB Capital (IB Capital), Michel Geurkink, and Emad Echadi, individually and as the agents of IB Capital, with soliciting and accepting ...
SFO issued the first criminal proceedings against Deutsche Bank and Barclays staff
November 16th, 2015
The Serious Fraud Office today issued the first criminal proceedings against 10 individuals accused of manipulating the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (EURIBOR). The following individuals will be charged with conspiracy to defraud in connection with the SFO’s ongoing investigation ...
Six Former Brokers Stand Trial Over Libor
October 7th, 2015
Court hears brokers helped convicted trader Tom Hayes rig interest rate benchmarks for financial gain Six former brokers with nicknames including “Lord Libor” and “Big Nose” helped convicted bank trader Tom Hayes rig interest-rate benchmarks for financial gain, a London court ...
First brokers stand trial over Libor
October 5th, 2015
The first brokers to face prosecution in the global Libor investigation over allegations they helped traders from various panel banks to manipulate the rate by acting as middlemen will go on trial this week in London. The case will ...
