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PWC fined $25m regarding Bank of Tokyo consult issues
August 19th, 2014
PWC has been fined $25m (£15m) and banned from some consulting work for two years by New York State’s financial regulator because of misconduct during work at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. The deal, agreed yesterday with New York’s Department of ...
StanChart faces fresh $300m US settlement
August 19th, 2014
Standard Chartered is in talks to pay up to $300m to New York’s top banking regulator to settle allegations it failed to identify suspicious transactions. New York’s Department of Financial Services could announce the settlement as soon as this ...
Bank Overseer PwC Faces Penalty and Sidelining of Regulatory Consulting Unit
August 18th, 2014
The giant consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers occupies a position of trust on Wall Street, acting as a shadow regulator of sorts that promises the government an impartial look inside the world’s biggest banks. But the firm – hired and paid ...
Mercedes violates anti-monopoly law in China
August 18th, 2014
China’s government said Monday it has concluded Mercedes-Benz violated anti-monopoly law and charged excessive prices for parts, adding to a growing number of global automakers snared in an investigation of the industry. Regulators found the luxury unit of Germany’s ...
Royal Bank of Scotland to offload global Coutts arm
August 12th, 2014
Royal Bank of Scotland said it planned to sell the international operations of Coutts, its private bank for wealthy clients including Queen Elizabeth II and David Beckham, just months before the unit is expected to be fined for helping ...
Foreign Firms under Chinese antitrust law
August 11th, 2014
It was only last month that 100 antitrust investigators probe simultaneously into four of Microsoft’s offices across China, executing “surprise visits” where the vice president and other managers were interrogated and data was collected. It appears that Chinese regulators ...
Wylys Call SEC $750 Million Trial Demand a Miscalculation
August 7th, 2014
The lawyer for Samuel Wyly and the estate of Charles Wyly told a judge they shouldn’t have to pay regulators as much as $750 million after being found liable for using a web of offshore trusts to hide stock ...
Banks Must Show They Can Die Quietly
August 6th, 2014
The U.S. Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. have just confirmed what most people already knew: The largest banks are far too complex and opaque for their own good, let alone for the good of the broader ...
FCA sets out its approach to financial promotions in social media
August 6th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today launched a consultation which is intended to clarify its approach to the supervision of financial promotions in social media. The FCA’s overall approach is that the financial promotion rules are intended to ...
Standard Chartered faces further US fine
August 6th, 2014
Standard Chartered warned it could face more US fines over its money-laundering controls as it reported a 20% fall in half-year profits. US regulators have identified new problems with the bank’s surveillance system, the bank said. It faces a ...
