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HMRC unable to disclose figures for civil fraud investigations
April 10th, 2014
Only six taxpayers a month voluntarily acknowledge that they have committed fraud using a disclosure facility set up by HMRC at the beginning of 2012 The facility, which encourages people who have committed tax fraud to admit their offences ...
Turkey keeps YouTube block despite court rulings
April 10th, 2014
Turkish authorities defied court orders and reaffirmed a ban on YouTube imposed after the posting of illicit recordings of top secret security talks that was cited by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan as part of a “dirty campaign” to topple ...
Greek bond order book soars to €17.5bn
April 10th, 2014
Greece has attracted a staggering €17.5bn order book for its eagerly anticipated return to the bond market – and banks are still taking bids. The final size of the five year deal is yet to be confirmed but banks ...
Tax Writers Clash on Paying for Extending Business Breaks
April 9th, 2014
The top lawmakers on the House Ways and Means Committee disagreed over whether extending tax breaks for research and international finance operations should be offset to prevent the U.S. budget deficit from growing. Representative Dave Camp, the committee chairman, ...
Ukraine Mounts Security Push as Russia Warns on Civil War
April 9th, 2014
Ukrainian authorities sent security forces to Kharkiv to clear the country’s second-biggest city of separatists as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russia of using “special forces and agents” to spark unrest. An “anti-terrorist operation” was under way ...
Barclays Settles U.K. Libor Case Weeks Before Trial to Start
April 8th, 2014
Barclays Plc (BARC) settled the first U.K. lawsuit filed over allegations the bank manipulated Libor, weeks before the trial was scheduled to start. Barclays agreed to restructure the debt of Graiseley Properties Ltd., which filed the lawsuit, as part ...
Pistorius Defense to Call Pathologist as Murder Trial Resumes
April 7th, 2014
Oscar Pistorius’s lawyers plan to call a forensics expert as their opening defense witness before the Paralympic gold medalist testifies in his murder trial. Jan Botha, a pathologist, may be the first to testify as the defense starts its ...
Stock experts say the bull isn’t dead yet
April 7th, 2014
Wall Street professionals are still optimistic about stocks, despite a very volatile start for the markets this year. The 26 investment strategists surveyed in the past week by CNNMoney have an average year-end target for the S&P 500 of ...
Apple, Nestle, NBCUniversal, Netflix: Intellectual Property
April 7th, 2014
Apple Inc. (AAPL), accusing Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) of misleading jurors at the start of a $2 billion trial over smartphone technology, lost its bid to show jurors how it uses three of five patents disputed in the case. ...
CySec’s announcement
April 4th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘CySEC’) wishes to inform ASP’s (including ASPs whose application is still pending before CySEC) that: 1. Pursuant to article 11(1)(c) of the Law regulating Companies providing Administrative Services and Related Matters of 2012 (‘the ASP ...