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Hogan Lovells Advises Optimal Payments Plc on €1.1 Billion Transformational Skrill Acquisition
March 24th, 2015
Hogan Lovells has advised Optimal Payments Plc on the €1.1 billion acquisition of Sentinel Topco Limited and its subsidiaries (Skrill Group) from Sentinel Group Holdings S.A, which is ultimately majority owned by funds managed and advised by CVC Capital ...
FCA publishes its Business Plan for 2015/16 and announces details of new supervision and authorisation divisions
March 24th, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority has set out the key areas of work it will undertake in the forthcoming financial year with the publication of its Business Plan for 2015/16. It also confirmed the creation of two new Divisions that would ...
Central banks agree new rules for FX market conduct
March 24th, 2015
Banks must prevent traders sharing order information under a new global code of conduct that bans traditional slang usages and gives dealers more guidelines for what they can and cannot say about the world’s biggest financial market. The 8-page ...
UK Offshore Tax Disclosures – Use The LDF while you can [Update]
March 24th, 2015
Tax authorities around the globe are increasingly working together to fight tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance to collect more tax. In the UK, HMRC is geared up to take full advantage: anyone who needs to put UK tax ...
BOI: The Monetary Committee keeps the interest rate for April 2015 unchanged at 0.1 percent
March 24th, 2015
Inflation data The Consumer Price Index for February declined by 0.7 percent, while forecasters had projected a decline of 0.6 percent, on average. The decline in electricity prices, which came into effect in February, contributed 0.3 percentage points toward ...
ECB to Continue Buying Debt Until Inflation Stabilizes
March 24th, 2015
Central Bank will purchase large amounts of public and private debt for at least 18 months The European Central Bank will purchase large amounts of public and private debt for at least 18 months and until it is convinced ...
BOK Said to Have Met Economists to Improve Communication Lines
March 24th, 2015
The Bank of Korea called in economists on Monday to discuss communication on monetary policy, after catching them off guard earlier this month when it cut the benchmark interest rate to a record low. Officials including Deputy Governor Yoon ...
Fed: Agencies Provide Feedback on Resolution Plans of Three Foreign Banking Organizations
March 24th, 2015
Firms Required to Address Shortcomings in 2015 Submissions The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on Monday announced that they had completed the reviews of resolution plans submitted in 2014 by three large, foreign banking ...
Merkel and Tsipras ease tension but did not find political solution
March 24th, 2015
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras struck a conciliatory tone after their first bilateral meeting in Berlin on Monday but the Greek leader’s host insisted that she is not in a position to ease Greece’s ...
FSC: Revocation of the Category 1 Global Business Licence
March 23rd, 2015
Revocation of the Category 1 Global Business Licence and withdrawal of Authorisation to act as Collective Investment Scheme of Lancelot Global PCC and The Four Elements PCC Notice is hereby given that the Financial Services Commission, Mauritius (the “FSC Mauritius”) ...
