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Sanctions force another company out of Russia’s oil boom
October 9th, 2014
Western sanctions against Russia have led Royal Dutch Shell to discontinue its work with Gazprom Neft extracting shale oil from a field in Siberia. In announcing Shell’s suspension on its website, Gazprom Neft, part of the Kremlin-run gas monopoly ...
Kobre & Kim Adds Hong Kong Law to Follow the Money
October 6th, 2014
Kobre & Kim LLP, a law firm that secured an acquittal for one of the defendants in the U.S.’s first foreign bribery sting operation, added a local legal practice to its Hong Kong office this month according to latest ...
Obama: Economy is coming back
October 3rd, 2014
President Obama, facing Nov. 4 elections that will determine the makeup of Congress for his last two years in office, said Thursday that the once-shattered American economy is coming back, but many Americans still don’t feel the benefits. Outlining ...
Fannie, Freddie shares slump after investor lawsuits dismissed
October 2nd, 2014
Shares of government-controlled Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) and Freddie Mac (FMCC.OB) plummeted on Wednesday, the day after a judge upheld the U.S. Treasury’s right to seize the mortgage finance companies’ profits. Judge Royce Lamberth, threw out lawsuits brought by investors ...
Currency trader of Deutsche Bank was dismissed for irregularities
September 22nd, 2014
A Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) currency trader was dismissed earlier this year after internal checks uncovered irregularities around how he recorded trades, the bank said. Andy Donaldson was suspended in June and dismissed shortly after, Sydney-based Adrian Cox, a ...
Dark Pools need more transparent future as threats rise
September 18th, 2014
Off-exchange markets, accounting for more than 40 percent of dark-pool volume, have publicly disclosed rules of operation that were previously hidden. The private venues host 17 percent of trading in the $24 trillion U.S. stock market. They’re taking the ...
HP subsidiaries plead guilty in bribery cases
September 12th, 2014
Hewlett-Packard (HP) and three subsidiaries pleaded guilty Thursday to paying bribes to foreign officials in Russia, Mexico and Poland and agreed to pay $108 million in criminal and regulatory penalties. The guilty pleas, entered in San Francisco federal court, ...
GSK China consumer healthcare unit linked to DOJ probe in 2012
September 9th, 2014
A U.S. anti-bribery probe into GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L) touched on the firm’s Chinese consumer healthcare business in 2012, internal documents show, suggesting the drugmaker’s compliance problems in China could go wider than previously revealed. GSK confirmed it had conducted ...
The Reasons Bankers Weren’t Busted
September 9th, 2014
“There Were No Convictions of Bankers for Good Reason” is the headline of a post by Mark F. Pomerantz, a lawyer and retired partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in the New York Times’s Room for Debate ...
FX Probe Lags in EU as Other Watchdogs Ready for Fines
September 8th, 2014
The European Union’s antitrust arm is still at the start of its probe into possible collusion in foreign-exchange markets even as U.S. and U.K. regulators edge closer to levying fines. “We are at the starting point of this investigation,” ...
