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CEOs must act before HMRC’s investigations
April 30th, 2014
The phenomenal pace of international tax transparency initiatives continues to accelerate. Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced at the G5 finance ministers’ meeting this week that agreements for the automatic exchange of information between the UK, France, Germany, ...
Futures trader convicted of false trading
April 30th, 2014
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), an independent statutory body set up to regulate the securities and futures markets in Hong Kong, has issued a press release informing that the Eastern Magistrates’ Court convicted a futures trader ...
Market manipulator jailed for false trading
April 30th, 2014
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), an independent statutory body set up to regulate the securities and futures markets in Hong Kong, has issued a press release informing that the Eastern Magistrates’ Court sentenced Mr Chan Wing ...
FCA warning against unauthorised firm
April 30th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British financial regulatory authority, has issued a warning informing the investors that Euro Solution Ltd is not permitted to provide any financial services or products. Furthermore, FCA points out that Euro Solution Ltd is ...
A look on FASB’s new standards
April 30th, 2014
In December 2002, five months after he became chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, Robert Herz told a conference of auditors that FASB had set a “very ambitious” deadline for issuing a sweeping new standard that would govern ...
Deutsche Bank Attacks Basel Plan’s Threat to Repo Market
April 30th, 2014
Global banks from Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) to Credit Suisse Group AG (CS) are urging international regulators to rethink a liquidity rule they say risks harming the market for repurchase agreements and pushing up governments’ borrowing costs. Draft plans ...
U.K.’s Transaction Tax Plan on hold by the European court
April 30th, 2014
The U.K. lost a bid to counter plans by 11 European Union nations for a common financial-transactions tax, after the bloc’s top court said it was too soon to rule on the legality of the move. The European Court ...
Tax inspections in Greece are increasing
April 30th, 2014
It’s Saturday night going on Sunday morning at a club near the gated homes of the Greek elite in northern Athens as two men and a woman in business suits push through the crowd and demand to see the ...
Google warning on Putin’s possible Internet censorship might prove right
April 30th, 2014
Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt warned last year that Russia was “on the path” toward China’s model of Internet censorship. Vladimir Putin is proving him right. With Russia locked in the worst standoff with the U.S. since the Cold ...
USD/CHF rebounds from 0.88
April 30th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook Since USD/CHF closed beneath the monthly PP and 55-day SMA, it was expected to extend the losses. However, it turned around ahead of the weekly S2 at 0.8764 and decided to return to the down-trend line at ...
