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Judge Rakoff Says 2011 S.E.C. Deal With Citigroup Can Close
August 6th, 2014
The settlement that just wouldn’t settle — Citigroup’s 2011 deal with the Securities and Exchange Commission — has finally cleared its last hurdle. Judge Jed S. Rakoff of Federal District Court in Manhattan, who initially rejected the $285 million ...
Fox withdraws $71bn bid for Time Warner
August 6th, 2014
Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has abandoned a $71bn offer for Time Warner. The news brought an early end to what promised to be a lengthy battle between two of the industry’s biggest names. Most analysts had expected Rupert ...
New York is back on top for IPOs
August 6th, 2014
New York is once again the top destination for global companies listing their stocks, according to a new report on “cross-border” IPOs. It’s the first time New York has topped Hong Kong since 2009. Companies that are based overseas ...
Goldman, Deutsche Bank Said Near Deal for National Bank of Greece Buyout Firm
August 6th, 2014
The private-equity units of Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank are nearing an agreement to purchase the buyout arm of National Bank of Greece SA. Goldman Sachs Asset Management and DB Private Equity are in talks to pay Greece’s largest ...
Treasury seeks ways to block tax inversions
August 6th, 2014
The Treasury Department is exploring ways to unilaterally block a surge of U.S. companies shifting their headquarters overseas in search of major tax savings. The new escalation of the White House battle against corporate tax inversions came as a ...
Apple, Samsung Agree to End Patent Suits Outside U.S.
August 6th, 2014
Apple and Samsung Electronics are starting to wind down their global patent battle. The companies said in a joint statement today that they have agreed to drop all suits against each other in countries outside the U.S. Claims are ...
Asia shares worn away by Wall Street, oil near nine-month low
August 6th, 2014
Asian stocks fell broadly on Wednesday while the U.S. dollar held firm after a slump on Wall Street and tensions over Ukraine smothered markets with a mood of risk aversion. Geopolitical concerns overshadowed upbeat U.S. economic data which included ...
CySec: acquisition of Administrative Services Providers (ASP) licence
August 6th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that the following firms have successfully obtained the CySec licence to operate as Administrative Services Provider (ASP): CHARTAC Management Services Limited Nobel Trust Limited C ...
Germany Brings FATCA Law Into Force
August 6th, 2014
Germany’s Ministry of Finance announced that a law enabling the implementation of the United States’ Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) has come into force. The ministry said that the FATCA-USA Implementation Regulation, known in German as FATCA-USA-Umsetzungsverordnung or ...
Big Banks’ ‘Living Wills’ Get Failing Grade
August 6th, 2014
Wall Street banks spent two years asking U.S. regulators what they should put in hypothetical bankruptcy plans to prove they aren’t “too big to fail.” The agencies broke their silence yesterday with a grade: Fail. The Federal Reserve and ...
