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Which country is the World’s Favorite New Tax Haven?
January 28th, 2016
The World’s Favorite New Tax Haven Is the United States Moving money out of the usual offshore secrecy havens and into the U.S. is a brisk new business. Last September, at a law firm overlooking San Francisco Bay, Andrew ...
CySec announced settlement with a Cyprus Investment Firm for €350.000
January 27th, 2016
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued a press release to inform that the Commission has reached a settlement with the CIF Banc De Binary Ltd (“BDB”) for the amount of €350.000. According to the CySec’s announcement ...
CySec announced administrative fine of €156.000 on a Cyprus Investment Firm
January 27th, 2016
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued a press release to inform that: The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (the ‘CySEC’) wishes to inform investors that, at its meeting held on October 12, 2015, decided ...
UBS selects Markit for index administration
January 26th, 2016
Markit today announced that it has been engaged to administer and calculate UBS Investment Bank’s investible indices. Xavier de la Porte du Theil, head of Investment Strategies Structuring at UBS, said: “We are very pleased to be able to ...
Deutsche Bank Convicted With Trader for Korea Stock Manipulation
January 26th, 2016
Employee gets five-year jail term for causing 2010 Market Rout Bank is fined for role in erasing $23 billion in share values Deutsche Bank AG’s South Korean brokerage unit and one of its employees were convicted of manipulating share ...
CFTC Grants Registration to 18 Swap Execution Facilities
January 25th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued Orders granting registration to 18 swap execution facilities (SEFs). The SEFs issued a Registration Order today previously were operating under temporary registration status. SEFs are trading facilities that operate under ...
Independent broker-dealers facing a number of looming regulatory changes
January 25th, 2016
Coming 12 to 24 months could divide the industry into winners and losers — firms that will be able to adapt, and those that might fall by the wayside Independent broker-dealers are facing a number of regulatory changes over ...
Europe’s big banks remain wary of doing business with Iran
January 25th, 2016
Sanctions have been lifted but uncertainty over US authorities’ stance means banks are reluctant to handle payments A week after the lifting of sanctions against Iran, major European banks are still reluctant to handle Iranian payments as they remain wary of ...
45 leading banks sign up to SWIFT’s global payments innovation initiative
January 22nd, 2016
Major banks around the world take action to dramatically improve the customer experience in cross-border payments SWIFT announces that 45 leading banks have signed up to its global payments innovation initiative, announced at the end of December 2015. The ...
PwC announced new strategic relationship
January 21st, 2016
PwC and LRN Forge Strategic Relationship to Help Organisations Operate with Purpose and Values at their Core PwC and LRN announced a long-term strategic relationship to better help organisations elevate behaviour, define and scale their values, and become animated ...
