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Tesco Ends 32-Year PwC Relationship After Accounting Scandal
May 11th, 2015
Tesco Plc ended a 32-year relationship with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP by hiring Deloitte LLP as its new auditor, seeking to draw a line under a 263 million-pound ($406 million) accounting scandal. The U.K.’s largest supermarket company selected Deloitte following a ...
Traders at Barclays and Deutsche Bank questioned over Euribor rigging
March 9th, 2015
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is questioning former traders from Barclays and Deutsche Bank over possible Euribor rigging. According to the FT, which spoke to sources close to the matter, they are being interviewed “under caution”. This means the UK fraud investigators ...
SFO launches investigation into Bank of England liquidity auctions
March 5th, 2015
It is unclear whether the Bank’s employees are suspected of involvement in any attempt to rig the auctions, used as emergency lending during the credit crisis The Bank of England has, today, issued the following statement: “Following the ...
HMRC confirms HSBC Suisse bank data can now be shared
February 26th, 2015
HMRC‘s Chief Executive, Lin Homer, today announced in a Treasury Select Committee hearing that the French authorities have formally agreed that HMRC can share stolen HSBC Suisse customer account data with other law enforcement agencies and regulators, for the ...
FCA joins HSBC tax-dodging inquiry
February 17th, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) says it is looking into the HSBC bank over its Swiss tax-dodging scandal. The move comes in the light of last week’s allegations that the bank had helped hundreds of people evade UK tax ...
HSBC files: Swiss bank hid money for suspected criminals
February 13th, 2015
HSBC’s Swiss bank concealed large sums of money for people facing allegations of serious wrongdoing, including drug-running, corruption and money laundering, leaked files reveal. Despite being legally obliged since 1998 to make special checks on high-risk customers, the bank ...
HSBC files: international outcry over activities at bank’s Swiss arm
February 10th, 2015
Revelations of collusion with wealthy and criminal clients in tax malpractice triggers furious response around the world HSBC was fighting an international firestorm on Monday over revelations that its Swiss private bank helped clients conceal undeclared accounts and provided services ...
HSBC sets aside head of European forex trading
December 11th, 2014
HSBC has sacked its European currency trading chief in the wake of a huge $618m (£394m) fine for manipulating the £3.3trn a day foreign exchange market. The bank is understood to have “let go” Stuart Scott on Tuesday following ...
Tesco boss Dave Lewis overhauls management structure amid accounting scandal
December 2nd, 2014
Tesco’s newly appointed CEO Dave Lewis has overhauled the management structure of the British retailer in the wake of an accounting scandal that led to eight managers being suspended. Lewis will temporarily head UK operations as the current managing ...
Funding secured for Tesco shareholder class action
November 26th, 2014
Australian litigation funder Bentham has made its biggest entry yet in the European market by agreeing to fund a class action against supermarket giant Tesco. The European subsidiary will fund legal action on behalf of shareholders who are claiming ...
