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CEO of tax specialist cleared of wrongdoing after HMRC climb down
September 15th, 2014
The chief executive and a former director of the tax specialist arm of financial group Montpelier have been cleared of cheating the public revenue of £1m, after HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) dropped the case against them. Watkin Gittins, ...
SRA silent over ‘fake’ bank law firm probe
September 15th, 2014
Regulator makes no comment on letter-writing practice despite stern warning in july. The Solicitors Regulation Authority has received complaints about individual in-house solicitors accused of involvement in sending letters purporting to be from independent law firms, as more banks ...
Oscar Pistorius guilty of ‘culpable homicide’
September 12th, 2014
South African judge on Friday convicted athlete Oscar Pistorius of “culpable homicide” in the death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. A conviction of culpable homicide, the term for manslaughter in South Africa, carries a maximum 15-year prison sentence. Pistorius ...
Eni chief executive under investigation over $1bn Nigerian oil deal
September 12th, 2014
Claudio Descalzi, chief executive of Eni, is under investigation in an international bribery case stemming from the $1.1bn acquisition of a Nigerian oilfield in 2011, the Italian state-controlled company said. The announcement by Eni, which denies any “illegal conduct” ...
Wall Street watchdog to pick insider as arbitration head
September 12th, 2014
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has narrowed its search for a new head of its arbitration unit to two of its own long-time officials, according to a person familiar with the matter. FINRA, Wall Street’s industry-funded watchdog, will replace ...
Argentina’s Congress passes debt restructuring law
September 11th, 2014
Argentina’s Congress gave final approval on Thursday to a law proposing to restructure the country’s debt to skirt a U.S. court ruling that forced it into its second default in 12 years. The debt restructuring plan aims to enable ...
CBC fines Alpha Bank Cyprus Ltd
September 11th, 2014
The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) has decided the imposition of fine amounting to €89.000 against Alpha Bank Cyprus Ltd for failing to comply with specific Laws and Directives. The Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC), within the remit of exercising its ...
GSK China consumer healthcare unit linked to DOJ probe in 2012
September 9th, 2014
A U.S. anti-bribery probe into GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK.L) touched on the firm’s Chinese consumer healthcare business in 2012, internal documents show, suggesting the drugmaker’s compliance problems in China could go wider than previously revealed. GSK confirmed it had conducted ...
The Reasons Bankers Weren’t Busted
September 9th, 2014
“There Were No Convictions of Bankers for Good Reason” is the headline of a post by Mark F. Pomerantz, a lawyer and retired partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in the New York Times’s Room for Debate ...
Morgan Stanley to pay $95 million in U.S. mortgage-debt settlement
September 9th, 2014
Morgan Stanley (MS.N) has agreed to pay $95 million to resolve a lawsuit accusing the Wall Street bank of misleading investors in mortgage-backed securities in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis. The settlement, disclosed in court papers ...
