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New Chair of Financial Markets Authority
November 26th, 2014
Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Paul Goldsmith today announced the appointment of Murray Jack as the new chair of the Financial Markets Authority (FMA). “I am very pleased that Mr Jack has agreed to take on this crucial role,” ...
Fed Dual Mandates Clash as Jobless Drop Vies With Inflation
November 18th, 2014
Just when Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and her colleagues will be approaching a decision to raise interest rates, their two mandates will probably be pulling them in different directions. By June 2015, the jobless rate will be very ...
Surveys Confirm FATCA Compliance Burden
October 10th, 2014
Both the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and Mindtree, a global technology services company, have pointed out the immense global compliance costs and issues posed by the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) to the financial services ...
Directors fined for not filing financial statements
September 11th, 2014
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has fined directors Hayden George Jones and Thomas Alexander George Jones with the amount of $35,000 each for breaches of the Financial Reporting Act 1993 (the FRA). The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) brought charges ...
Strategic Finance settlement proceeds to first distribution
August 12th, 2014
In June this year PwC Partners John Fisk and Colin McCloy, as Receivers of Strategic, together with the Financial Markets Authority, announced they had finalised a $22 million settlement agreement with the former directors and auditors of Strategic. On ...
CFTC Says Flexibility essential to Oversee Cross-Border Swaps
July 31st, 2014
U.S. regulators need flexibility in overseeing cross-border swaps, a lawyer for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission told a federal judge as he defended the agency’s reliance on guidance rather than formal rules in a lawsuit brought by Wall Street’s ...
China’s long problems to resurface in 2016
July 25th, 2014
PNC Financial Services Group is staying cautious warning of a “perfect storm” that could surface by 2016, beside the recent positive data from China. Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at Financial Services Group wrote in a report this week, “Several ...
Law suits launched against law firms across US over mortgage advice
July 24th, 2014
Federal agencies and 15 states have initiated 41 law suits against law firms and lawyers concerning alleged scams over the provision of legal help to struggling homeowners. Suits have been brought, for instance, against Florida law firms Hoffman Law ...
FX Benchmark Overhaul
July 16th, 2014
Global regulators published details of their plans to overhaul foreign-exchange benchmarks in response to allegations that traders colluded to manipulate rates in the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency market. The Financial Stability Board proposed changes to the way the WM/Reuters rates ...
Silicon Valley is moving into Bitcoin
July 9th, 2014
Richard Waters, writing in Financial Times, is reporting that Silicon Valley’s A-Listers seem to be fast climbing onto the Bitcoin bandwagon. More and more of Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists have been queuing up to invest in Bitcoin start-ups. Yesterday, ...
