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BP ‘grossly negligent’ in 2010 U.S. spill, fines could be $18 billion
September 5th, 2014
A U.S. judge has decided that BP Plc was “grossly negligent” and “reckless” in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill four years ago, a ruling that could add nearly $18 billion in fines to more than $42 billion in ...
Getty Images taking Microsoft to court
September 5th, 2014
Microsoft has launched a new online product that Getty Images says allows website publishers to embed digital photographs on their sites and is a “massive infringement” of copyrighted images, the photo agency claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal ...
SRA hints at rethink on compliance roles
September 4th, 2014
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has hinted that it will reform its compliance officer scheme – just 20 months after the roles were introduced. In a speech this morning, the regulator’s chief executive Paul Philip said the review of the ...
Halliburton Agrees To Pay $1.1 Billion To Avoid Future Claims
September 4th, 2014
Halliburton Co. has reached a settlement in U.S. District Court in New Orleans to pay $1.1 billion to resolve most of the claims against it arising from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in a ...
Stolen JPMorgan data rerouted to Russia
September 4th, 2014
Investigators working on the cyber attack at JPMorgan Chase & Co have found clues that a global network of computers available for hire was used to send the stolen data to a Russian city, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar ...
CySec: Renouncement of CIF licence
September 4th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) announced that, on 22nd August 2014, the CIF “Jiffix Markets Ltd“, which provided investment services via the domain www.jfx.com, renounced its authorization pursuant to section 24(1)(b) of the Investment Services and Activities and ...
Joe Hockey announces new move against multinational tax evaders
September 4th, 2014
Multinational companies who seek to avoid Australian tax but also charge disproportionately higher prices here are in the sights of a new crackdown. Joe Hockey has told parliament the Commissioner of Taxation has been asked to “double his efforts” ...
Commerzbank near to settling U.S. sanctions probes
September 4th, 2014
German lender Commerzbank AG (CBKG.DE) is nearing agreement with U.S. authorities over its dealings with Iran and other countries under U.S. sanctions, sources familiar with the matter said. The bank is expected to pay about $650 million to resolve ...
Fukushima workers sue Tepco over unpaid hazard wages
September 3rd, 2014
Workers decommissioning Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have sued its operator Tokyo Electric (Tepco) over unpaid hazard wages. The four men are demanding about 65m yen (£375,000; $620,000) in extra pay. They claim the compensation for removing contaminated debris ...
Second Trial Approaching for Rowland, Ex-Connecticut Governor
September 3rd, 2014
The accusations are similar. The judge will be different. The last time John G. Rowland, the former governor of Connecticut, appeared at the federal courthouse here as a defendant in a criminal corruption trial, he received a sentence of ...
