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Transatlantic Legal Awards launch
February 21st, 2017
The spotlight is on transatlantic deals, cases and law firm strategy with the launch of the 2017 Transatlantic Legal Awards, which are hosted by Legal Week and The American Lawyer. Submissions are now being accepted for the June awards, ...
Rising number of carve-out deals providing legal opportunities
February 16th, 2017
Carve-outs are becoming more prominent as a way for corporates to unlock value from their non-core enterprises, currently accounting for 10 per cent of all M&A activity globally. Carve-outs are becoming more prominent as a way for corporates to ...
CySec fined €175.000 a Cyprus Investment Firm
February 16th, 2017
The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform investors that, at its meeting held on December 05, 2016, decided to impose a total administrative fine of €175.000 on the CIF Novox ...
CySec announced for the Regulatory Obligations of CIFs when providing binary options
February 13th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has today published a consultation paper regarding its proposed reforms to the regulatory framework governing the provision of investment services in binary options by firms under its supervision (“Cyprus Investment Firms” or “CIFs”). ...
Here Come The Robots – And They Are Going To Take Almost All Of Our Jobs
February 9th, 2017
What is going to happen to society when robots are able to do just about everything better, faster and cheaper than human workers can? We live at a time when technology is increasing at an exponential pace. Incredible advancements ...
Brexit uncertainty caused UK fintech investments slump
February 9th, 2017
Global venture capitalist investment in the financial technology (fintech) sector increased by about 11% to reach $17.4bn last year, but there was a 33.7% drop in the UK. The UK retained its place as recipient of the third-largest amount ...
Switzerland to vote on corporate tax unification
February 7th, 2017
Swiss voters will vote next week on whether to reform corporate tax and remove the reduced tax rates that Switzerland currently grants to multinational firms Voters will be asked whether they accept the federal law that was adopted by ...
Price controls and propaganda
February 5th, 2017
Most economists agree on one thing; price controls do not work. Many go on to say they create shortages of goods, which inevitably drives black market prices even higher than they would otherwise be. Price controls were last tried ...
FCA fines Deutsche Bank £163 million for serious anti-money laundering controls failings
January 31st, 2017
Soon after the New York’s Department of Financial Services fined Deutsche Bank $425 million for Russian Mirror-Trading scheme, the U.K. regulators FCA announced a fined of £163,076,224 to Deutsche Bank AG for failing to maintain an adequate anti-money laundering ...
Harvard Business Review: Blockchain Is Foundational, Not Disruptive
January 25th, 2017
True blockchain-led transformation is still many years away, according to an article, “The Truth About Blockchain” in the Harvard Business Review, because it does not deliver a truly “disruptive” business model which can attack an existing model with a lower ...
