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PayPal pays $7.7m in US sanctions case
March 27th, 2015
PayPal has agreed to pay $7.7 million to settle charges from the US Treasury that lax screening technology saw the firm violate multiple sanctions programmes. According to a Treasury statement, over several years up until 2013, PayPal processed 486 ...
Bankers: Lebanon won’t drop banking secrecy
March 27th, 2015
Lebanon will not abandon its banking secrecy law but will continue to cooperate with the United States and other nations in the exchange of tax information and the fight against money laundering, leading bankers said Thursday. “Lebanon has no intention to abandon ...
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 ...
ASIC bans finance broker and cancels Australian Credit Licence
March 23rd, 2015
ASIC has banned Victorian finance broker Ms Meenakshi Devi Callychurn from engaging in credit activities for five years, and cancelled the Australian credit licence of her company Unique Mortgage Services Pty Ltd (UMS). Ms Callychurn of Maribyrnong, Victoria, is ...
PwC sells Brazilian Outsourcing Division to TMF
March 20th, 2015
Acquisition marks a significant step in the expansion of TMF Group’s operations in Latin America. TMF Group, a leading provider of high value Global Business Services to clients operating and investing internationally, has concluded the acquisition of Apriori, the ...
ASIC bans finance broker and cancels Australian Credit Licence
March 20th, 2015
ASIC has banned Victorian finance broker Ms Meenakshi Devi Callychurn from engaging in credit activities for five years, and cancelled the Australian credit licence of her company Unique Mortgage Services Pty Ltd (UMS). Ms Callychurn of Maribyrnong, Victoria, is ...
Austria Announces Substantial Income Tax Reforms
March 19th, 2015
Austria has announced proposals to provide personal income tax cuts worth EUR5bn (USD5.3bn) to lower income earners. The new tax package, which aims to boost economic growth by reducing the lowest income tax rate from 36.5 to 25 percent, ...
ESMA sees increased convergence in automated trading supervision
March 19th, 2015
The supervision of automated trading has become more convergent across the European Union (EU), a recent review by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has found. ESMA reviewed how the 30 national competent authorities (NCAs) across the EU ...
European Commission unveils draft legislation to tackle corporate tax avoidance
March 19th, 2015
The European Commission today presented a package of tax transparency measures as part of its ambitious agenda to tackle corporate tax avoidance and harmful tax competition in the EU. A key element of this Tax Transparency Package is a proposal to ...
Second largest Luxembourg AIFM chooses Linedata for Regulatory Reporting Solution
March 18th, 2015
Linedata (NYSE Euronext: LIN), the global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, today announced that MUGC Lux Management S.A. (“MUGC LM”), the management company of Mitsubishi UFJ Global Custody S.A. (“MUGC”), both members of Mitsubishi ...
