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ASIC bans former Westpac bank home finance manager in relation to false loan applications
March 12th, 2014
ASIC, the Australian securities and Investment Commission, has permanently banned Mr David St Pierre, a former Westpac Bank Home Finance Manager from engaging in credit activities and providing financial services. Mr St Pierre, of Mt Nathan, Queensland, was a ...
Deloitte propose rent reductions in LA Fitness CVA
March 11th, 2014
DELOITTE INSOLVENCY experts have been recruited to rescue struggling gym chain LA Fitness and LA Leisure. Partners Matt Smith and Neville Kahn have been appointed nominees to supervise the Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) of the UK gym chain LA ...
Vodafone, Verizon Accused By India’s Home Ministry of Sharing Customer Details With UK’s GCHQ
March 11th, 2014
The Indian operations of Vodafone (NASDAQ:VOD) and Verizon (NYSE:VZ) shared details about their customers with Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, news reports said Monday, citing a December memo from the internal security division of India’s Ministry of Home ...
FCA: on SME Banking Market Study
March 11th, 2014
The FCA has announced that it has been working closely with the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) on the SME banking market study. The OFT has issued a market study update, which sets out a summary of the analysis ...
Cyprus central bank head who led Cyprus through bailout quits
March 11th, 2014
Cypriot Central Bank governor Panicos Demetriades, whose testy relations with the island’s government dogged a tumultuous tenure when Cyprus teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, resigned on Monday. President Nicos Anastasiades, who had been pressing for Demetriades’s departure ever ...
SRA investigates collapsed law firm Calibre
March 10th, 2014
THE Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has launched an investigation into Calibre Solicitors, a Salford-based personal injury law firm that went into administration in February. According to a creditors report a number of clients had complained to the SRA about ...
As talk of sanctions on Russia heats up, business groups draw cautionary line
March 10th, 2014
Business groups are pushing to ensure that any economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States are joined by as much of the rest of the world as possible, warning Congress and the Obama administration that unilateral U.S. ...
More than 1,000 lawyers protest outside parliament at legal aid cuts
March 10th, 2014
UK- More than 1,000 barristers and solicitors – many bearing placards declaring “Grayling must go” and accompanied by a giant, papier-mache effigy of the justice secretary – have protested outside parliament at cuts to criminal legal aid in their ...
Inmates running the asylum
March 10th, 2014
IT WAS always an awkward coincidence that the cousin of Steve DiCarmine, a former executive at the collapsed law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf , was “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano, who ran the Bonnano crime family and is now serving a ...
Carney Faces Leadership Test as Currency Scandal Snares BOE
March 10th, 2014
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney will face his toughest public testimony to date as he seeks to defend the integrity of an institution that’s become embroiled in the currency-manipulation scandal. Lawmakers will grill Carney tomorrow after the BOE ...
