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Plans outlined to amend tax rules to enable new simplified reporting of VAT owed for supply of digital services
July 30th, 2014
Proposed amendments to UK tax rules are being consulted on by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to recognise a new simplified mechanism that is being introduced for reporting VAT owed on the supply of digital services following changes to ...
GM sued over deaths, injuries linked to ignition switch
July 30th, 2014
General Motors (GM.N) was hit Tuesday with a lawsuit brought on behalf of more than 650 people allegedly injured or killed in accidents involving cars that have been recalled this year for faulty ignition switches. The lawsuit was filed ...
Lords committee against the right to be forgotten
July 30th, 2014
The House of Lords expressed its opposition to the ‘right to be forgotten’ describing it as ‘unworkable, unreasonable and wrong in principle’, enforcing in this way the government’s opinion against the EU privacy protection laws. The principle, also referred ...
Pound is bullish as Shine Comes Off
July 30th, 2014
The shine is starting to come off the U.K. pound, which has given up its reign as the most popular bullish bet for 2014 among the Group of 10 currencies. Hedge funds and other large speculators cut their net ...
Prosecutors, defense spar over $150 billion forfeiture for Madoff aides
July 30th, 2014
Four months after five former Bernard Madoff aides were convicted of helping conceal his massive Ponzi scheme, their lawyers and U.S. prosecutors are still fighting over the trial’s key question: What did they know, and when did they know ...
UBS, Deutsche Bank questioned by U.S. regulators on trading operations
July 29th, 2014
Germany’s Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) and Switzerland’s UBS (UBSN.VX) were investigated by U.S. regulators, who are searching to find whether broker-run stock exchanges gave an unfair advantage to high-frequency traders. The investment banks, which said on Tuesday that they were ...
Bank of Cyprus collects €1bn through shares selling
July 29th, 2014
A 1 billion euro ($1.34 billion) capital increase was held by Bank of Cyprus by selling shares, including investors such as the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and US investor Wilbur Ross, the bank cited on Monday. ...
The Non-Eclipse of America
July 29th, 2014
The recent creation of a new international development bank by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – the so-called BRICS – is just the latest challenge to America’s global leadership. But, from an international business perspective, the United ...
Deutsche Bank Posts 29 Percent Net Profit Drop
July 29th, 2014
Deutsche Bank AG posted a 29 percent drop in second-quarter net profit Tuesday, hit by what it described as higher taxes, declining revenue and political instability affecting the markets. Germany’s largest bank said its net profit in the April-June ...
Argentine’s debt must be paid to holdouts
July 29th, 2014
Argentina’s battle in courts for over a dozen of years against the claims of holdout investors in its defaulted debt, did not turn out positively. The holdouts, led by Paul Singer’s Elliott Capital Management and Mark Brodsky’s Aurelius Capital ...