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Burger King in Talks to Buy Tim Hortons
August 25th, 2014
Burger King may be the home of the Whopper, but Canada may be the new home of Burger King. The restaurant operator said on Sunday that it was in talks to buy Tim Hortons, the Canadian doughnut-and-coffee chain, in ...
CySec: acquisition of CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms) licence
August 25th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that the following firms have successfully obtained the CySec licence for CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms): AAA Trade Ltd LEON MFO Investments Ltd R Capital Solutions ...
Scotland to impose its own tax authority
August 22nd, 2014
Edinburgh took a step closer to operating its own version of HMRC this week, after the Scottish parliament passed the Revenue Scotland and Tax Powers Bill. The chair of the Chartered Institute of Taxation’s (CIOT) Scottish technical subcommittee, Moira ...
CySec introduces digital signature for ASP
August 22nd, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission has today announced the introduction of a digital signature for the submission of files to CySec. The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission aims to improve its procedure for secure transmission of the electronic ...
CFTC charges R2 Capital Group LLC with Fraud and Misappropriation
August 22nd, 2014
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that on August 15, 2014, Chief Judge Marcia S. Krieger, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, issued a restraining Order freezing the assets of Defendants Ryan Tomazin ...
Judge scolds Argentina, but no contempt order
August 22nd, 2014
Nation’s plan to evade legal orders, failing to make required payments to U.S. bondholders is illegal. According to a federal judge in Manhattan, Argentina’s plans to evade his orders by failing to make required payments to U.S. bondholders is ...
Lehman Brothers pension scheme payout agreed
August 19th, 2014
Members of the Lehman Brothers Pension Scheme will receive their benefits in full after a £184m settlement was reached in the six-year legal battle that followed the firm’s insolvency. The Pensions Regulator (TPR) announced today that a settlement had ...
Abe finding it hard to get his way on defence
August 19th, 2014
On 1 July, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced a decision to broaden the interpretation of the Japanese Constitution to enable Japan to exercise its right to collective self-defence. But to what extent will the Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF) ...
CySec: Transitional provisions of the new AIF law
August 13th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement informing all interested parties that the Alternative Investment Funds Law (L.131(I)/2014) (the ‘Law’) came into force on July 27th 2014. The Law can be found on the Commission’s website, ...
Greene King takes tax battle to Court of Appeal
August 13th, 2014
Greene King has confirmed it will take its long-running fight with HMRC over a £21m tax planning scheme, known as Project Sussex, to the Court of Appeal. In its latest annual report, the brewery and pub group revealed plans ...
