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Reasons Why It’s So Hard Being A Lawyer
June 22nd, 2015
1. We’re Your Lawyer. Not Your BFF. Sometimes, clients don’t understand the role we must play as a lawyer, which often involves telling the client he or she is totally wrong or what the client wants isn’t possible. Clients ...
No VAT on Bitcoin in Switzerland
June 15th, 2015
Excellent news from the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (ESTV): no VAT applies to Bitcoin in Switzerland. “This is excellent news for Bitcoin in Switzerland as it provides the legal certainty we need to professionally operate our business,” Niklas Nikolajsen, ...
KCG Announces Preliminary Results Of Its “Modified Dutch Auction” Tender Offer
June 4th, 2015
KCG expects to repurchase approximately 23.6 million shares of Class A Common Stock at $14.00 per share for a total cost of $330 million, excluding fees and expenses KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) announced the preliminary results of its “modified ...
Top news of the day, May 28
May 28th, 2015
1. Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven economic powers met on Thursday to discuss how to revive a faltering global recovery, with the United States leaning on Europe to reach a deal to avert a Greek bankruptcy. The ...
Receivers and managers appointed to Arena Capital / BlackfortFX
May 28th, 2015
The High Court in Christchurch has granted the Financial Markets Authority’s (FMA) application for Grant Graham and Neale Jackson of KordaMentha to be appointed as receivers and managers of Arena Capital Limited, trading as Blackfort FX (Arena/Blackfort). The decision, ...
AMF updates the list of unauthorised websites offering binary options trading
May 13th, 2015
The AMF is publishing a new updated list of websites offering binary options trading, for which no authorised investment services provider could be clearly identified. The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is once again warning retail investors against aggressive ...
Deutsche Bank is to invest up to €1 billion in digital technologies
April 29th, 2015
Investment is part of the German bank’s restructuring strategy, which aims to achieve annual savings of €3.5 billion by 2020. Deutsche Bank is to invest up to €1 billion to deploy digital technologies across all of its businesses over ...
Price Deflation, Asset Prices, and Threats to Growth
April 3rd, 2015
When I read media discussions about deflation,” three separate meanings are often used more-or-less interchangeably. One meaning is the way that economists use the term, in which “deflation” means “inflation happening at a negative rate.” Inflation means that the ...
Citigroup Report Chides Law Firms for Silence on Hackings
March 31st, 2015
Every month it seems another American company reports being a victim of a hacking that results in the theft of internal or customer information. But the legal profession almost never publicly discloses a breach. The unwillingness of most big ...
Greek government proposes measures worth 3.7 bln
March 31st, 2015
Revenues boost from monitoring deposits abroad and from sell-offs such as Piraeus port, regional airports The government’s list of reforms submitted to the country’s creditors provides for revenues of 3.7 billion euros this year, according to sources. The measures ...
