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Deutsche Bank Said to Be Probed by DOJ on Russia Mirror T
August 4th, 2015
U.S. federal prosecutors are investigating billions of dollars of trades Deutsche Bank AG made on behalf of Russian clients as recently as this year, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The Justice Department’s criminal probe, which hasn’t ...
CFTC charges individual and two corporations for Forex fraud scheme
August 4th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the unsealing of a civil enforcement action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, charging Husam Tayeh of Oak Lawn, Illinois; Dinar Corp., Inc. (DCI), a Nevada corporation; and My ...
Morgan Stanley brokers say they were underpaid
August 4th, 2015
Several Morgan Stanley financial advisers say they were underpaid thousands of dollars by the bank, which rebuilt its business on the back of the wealth management division where they work, insiders say. Morgan Stanley said the problems were “one-off ...
Will Law Firm Publishing Become Solely A Wire Service?
August 3rd, 2015
Vox columnist Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) believes the media is becoming a wire service. “…y guess is that within three years, it will be normal for news organizations of even modest scale to be publishing to some combination of their own websites, ...
Standard Chartered, Societe Generale are among four banks added to Forex Lawsuit by investors
August 3rd, 2015
Standard Chartered Plc and Societe Generale SA are among four banks added to a suit by investors claiming banks manipulated the $5.3 trillion a day foreign-exchange market. The investors filed a revised complaint Friday in which they broadened their ...
Google to defy French ‘right to be forgotten’ ruling
July 31st, 2015
Google is to defy France’s ruling that the “right to be forgotten” should be applied globally and not just in Europe. Last month, the French privacy watchdog, CNIL, ordered the firm to extend people’s right to have posts removed ...
SFC reprimands and fines Nomura International (Hong Kong) Limited HK$4.5 million for regulatory breach
July 30th, 2015
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded and fined Nomura International (Hong Kong) Limited (Nomura Hong Kong) HK$4.5 million for failing to report significant misconduct by a former trader in a timely manner (Note 1). On 11 June ...
The UAE: On the road to economic development
July 30th, 2015
In the past two years, the UAE has achieved three major milestones on the journey towards a sustainable and diverse economy. In 2014, the UAE’s stock exchanges were upgraded from ‘Frontier’ to ‘Emerging’ market status by the global markets ...
Investment Technology Group (ITG) in talks to settle SEC Probe and announces preliminary Second Quarter Earnings
July 30th, 2015
ITG announces Preliminary Second Quarter 2015 Earnings Guidance, including Reserve for Probable SEC Settlement The firm informs that expects its results for the second quarter of 2015 to be a GAAP net loss of $10.2 million, or $0.30 per ...
Accountants will soon be competing directly with solicitor firms
July 30th, 2015
Acountants will soon be competing directly with solicitor firms ‘on every high street in the country’, according to a leading financial adviser to the legal sector. Ian Muirhead, chairman of Solicitors Independent Financial Advice, said he expects 750 accountancy ...
