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ASIC publishes third report on corporate finance regulation
August 21st, 2015
ASIC has today published its third report on the regulation of corporate finance issues in Australia. The report, which covers the period January to June 2015, provides companies and their advisers with insights into ASIC’s regulatory approach in the ...
Fatca law: Taking the IRS to Court
August 21st, 2015
The 2010 Fatca law has made many Americans unbankable overseas. Nancy Pelosi famously said Congress had to pass ObamaCare so Americans could learn what was in it, but that rule applies to other regulatory monsters too. Take Fatca, the ...
Deloitte, Libra, Accenture: The work of auditors in the age of Bitcoin 2.0 technology
August 20th, 2015
Back in the late 1990s the cryptographer Nick Szabo predicted the paper-era techniques of auditing and accounting would be dramatically augmented by, and eventually integrated into, smart contracts. The last year or two has seen lots of opinion about ...
CFTC Orders Swap Dealer to Pay $200,000
August 20th, 2015
CFTC Orders Swap Dealer INTL FCStone Markets, LLC to Pay a $200,000 Civil Monetary Penalty for Failure to Supervise Swaps Trading in Violation of CFTC Regulation 23.602 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed and simultaneously settled charges ...
SEC Charges Citigroup and agreed to pay $15 million
August 20th, 2015
SEC Charges Citigroup Global Markets for Compliance and Surveillance Failures The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Citigroup Global Markets has agreed to settle charges that it failed to enforce policies and procedures to prevent and detect securities transactions ...
PCAOB Annual Report on Inspections of Broker and Dealer Auditors Continues to Show High Levels of Independence Findings and Audit Deficiencies
August 19th, 2015
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board issued an annual report PDF on its interim inspection program for auditors of brokers and dealers registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission that identified high levels of independence findings and audit deficiencies, ...
SEC Charges BNY Mellon With Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violations
August 19th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that BNY Mellon has agreed to pay $14.8 million to settle charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by providing valuable student internships to family members of foreign government officials ...
ICE Trade Vault approved by ACER as Registered Reporting Mechanism
August 17th, 2015
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, announced that the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has approved ICE Trade Vault Europe Limited (ICE Trade Vault Europe) as a Registered Reporting Mechanism ...
Tax Administration new report compares performance, best practices and trends in 56 tax administrations
August 17th, 2015
Tax administrations continue to face the challenges of improving their performance while reducing costs, decreasing compliance burdens for taxpayers tackling non-compliance. Improving taxpayer services, while making non-compliance harder, is helping revenue bodies increase their efficiency and allowing governments to ...
FINRA Fines StockCross Financial Services, Inc. $800,000 for Regulation SHO Violations
August 14th, 2015
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined StockCross Financial Services, Inc. $800,000 for Regulation SHO violations and for related supervisory violations that spanned more than three years. As part of the sanctions, StockCross is ...
