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Secrets ending for Swiss bank accounts

20/03/2015(0)
European tax evaders might soon have to hide their cash in mattresses instead of secret Swiss bank accounts. Switzerland has agreed to start sharing financial information with the European ... Read More
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Norway Signals Reduction After Unexpectedly Holding Rate

19/03/2015(0)
Norway’s central bank unexpectedly left interest rates unchanged and signaled another cut to protect the economy against a plunge in oil prices. The krone surged. The overnight deposit rate ... Read More
HSBC-Europe

HSBC switches auditors to PwC after decade with rivals KPMG

19/03/2015(0)
HSBC yesterday announced plans to appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) as its auditor, replacing KPMG which had held the position since 1991. Europe’s biggest bank said the appointment would be put to ... Read More
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Russia Deposit Fight Sees Foreign Banks Seeking New Clients

19/03/2015(0)
Oksana Semenikhina, a customer of Citigroup Inc.’s Russian unit for the past decade, got an offer from the lender this year that she couldn’t pass up. “They offered to ... Read More
OSBORNE

Osborne announces the death of the annual tax return & the April 4th panic

18/03/2015(0)
Instead HM Revenue and Customs will automatically collate the tax affairs of millions of Britons from employers, banks and investment firms into a single “digital” tax account which can ... Read More
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Citigroup, Barclays Close to Settling Forex Lawsuit With Private Investors

18/03/2015(0)
Citigroup Inc. and Barclays PLC are expected to pay as much as $800 million combined to settle a lawsuit with investors who say the banks manipulated foreign-exchange rates, according ... Read More
hypogroup

Debunking $1.4 Trillion Europe Debt Myth in Post-Heta Age

17/03/2015(0)
Austria’s decision to burn bondholders of a failed state bank may mean almost 1.3 trillion euros ($1.4 trillion) of European debt once deemed risk-free now comes with a hazard ... Read More
Banco de Madrid

Banco de Madrid Files for Bankruptcy After Parent Accused of Money Laundering

16/03/2015(0)
Spanish unit of Banca Privada d’Andorra hit by client withdrawals Banco de Madrid SA, the Spanish unit of an Andorran lender accused of money laundering for organized-crime groups, has filed for ... Read More
ubs

Swiss bank UBS settles currency-rigging claims for $135M

16/03/2015(0)
Switzerland‘s largest bank, UBS, has agreed to pay $135 million to settle claims that it helped rig currency-exchange rates in a scheme involving some of the world’s biggest banks. ... Read More
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U.S. Hits German Bank with $1.45 Billion in Penalties

13/03/2015(0)
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday ordered Germany’s Commerzbank bank and its U.S. affiliates to pay $1.45 billion in penalties for violations of U.S. sanctions law and for ... Read More
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