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StanChart faces fresh $300m US settlement

19/08/2014(0)
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 ... Read More
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New criminal offence proposed to catch tax evaders

19/08/2014(0)
People who fail to declare offshore tax liabilities could face prosecution under proposed new laws published for consultation today. HM Revenue & Customs has urged wealthy individuals to come ... Read More
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Lawmakers criticize Fed’s crisis lending program

19/08/2014(0)
Federal Reserve was urged to limit its crisis lending programs for big banks from a bipartisan group of lawmakers. During the crisis, the Fed invoked its emergency lending powers ... Read More
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Serious Fraud Office probes banks’ loan schemes

18/08/2014(0)
The Serious Fraud Office is looking into allegations of high street banks misusing government schemes designed to boost lending to small businesses, the Times reported on Sunday. The Times ... Read More
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Mercedes violates anti-monopoly law in China

18/08/2014(0)
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 ... Read More
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Quinn Emanuel, Stewarts and Bird & Bird gear up for RBS rights battle

18/08/2014(0)
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and litigation boutique Leon Kaye have formally joined the £4bn shareholder battle brought against the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) over its 2008 rights ... Read More
Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young Role in Gowex Fraud Questioned

14/08/2014(0)
Investors and the Madrid exchange are asking just who was verifying its financial statements, after the Wi-Fi hotspot provider, Let’s Gowex SA collapsed last month. Auditor Jose Diaz, of ... Read More
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Kinder Morgan deal at the centre of price fixing court battle

14/08/2014(0)
Rich Kinder, the Kinder Morgan founder who on Sunday unveiled a $44bn consolidation of a family of companies to create the US’s third-largest energy company, owes no small part ... Read More
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Anti-Terrorism Trial of Mideast Bank Worries the Financial World

14/08/2014(0)
The judge called it the Beirut account. It was a basic bank account at Arab Bank’s Al-Mazra branch in Beirut, Lebanon, unremarkable except for the name on the account: ... Read More
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Audi faces penalty in China

13/08/2014(0)
Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE)’s premium auto unit Audi on Wednesday said it would accept a penalty and change management processes at one of its China units after a regional authority said ... Read More
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