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UAE regulator approves new brokerage companies’ regulation
July 14th, 2014
The board of directors of the UAE’s Securities and Commodities Authority, SCA, has approved a new regulation for brokers and amended two other regulations. The new 34-article regulation classifies brokerage firms into (1) those which engage in trading only ...
US Taxpayers Warn Against Myopic Tax Reform Measures
July 10th, 2014
On July 8, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) led a coalition of 13 organizations in sending a letter to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee urging ...
Europe’s Debt Wish
July 8th, 2014
Eurozone leaders continue to debate how best to reinvigorate economic growth, with French and Italian leaders now arguing that the eurozone’s rigid “fiscal compact” should be loosened. Meanwhile, the leaders of the eurozone’s northern member countries continue to push ...
Judge Denies Madoff Trustee Recovery of Foreign Transfers
July 8th, 2014
Transfers made abroad between a foreign transferor and a foreign transferee cannot be recovered by the trustee administering the estate of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, a federal judge has ruled. Dealing a win to foreign banks and investment ...
Central Banks Testing Limits of Monetary Policy
July 8th, 2014
The world’s major central banks are returning to a more opaque and artful approach to policymaking, ending a crisis-era experiment with explicit promises that they found risked their credibility and did not substitute for action. From Washington to London ...
Germany Proposes a Road Tax Aimed Primarily at Foreigners
July 8th, 2014
The German government announced plans on Monday to charge a road-use fee on all cars using roads and highways in Germany, a measure aimed at the foreign-registered cars that make an estimated 170 million trips to and through the ...
The gap between accountants and clients
July 7th, 2014
I was intrigued to read some new and original research published by Robert Craven of The Directors’ Centre, reports Mark Lee. Craven is no stranger to AccountingWEB. My interview with him in 2012 about his book, ‘Grow Your Service ...
Revealed: the banks using ‘pseudo’ solicitor firms to make debtors pay up
July 4th, 2014
Britain’s high-street banks are routinely issuing legal demands from what appear to be independent firms of solicitors designed to make struggling borrowers pay up. Yet the firms are not regulated by the legal profession’s watchdog, and are simply names ...
Taking Systemic Risk Seriously
June 30th, 2014
There are two leading views about the world’s financial system. The first, heard mostly from executives at leading global banks and their allies, is that the system is safer than it has ever been. According to this view, the ...
Rethinking the Sino-American Relationship
June 27th, 2014
In early July, senior US and Chinese officials will gather in Beijing for the sixth Strategic and Economic Dialogue. With bilateral frictions mounting on a number of fronts – including cyber security, territorial disputes in the East and South ...
