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Regulators fine global banks $3.4 billion in forex probe
November 12th, 2014
Global regulators imposed penalties totaling $3.4 billion on five major banks, including UBS (UBSN.VX), HSBC (HSBA.L) and Citigroup (C.N) on Wednesday for failing to stop their traders from trying to manipulate foreign exchange markets. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) and JP ...
ECB could pump €1tn into eurozone in fresh round of quantitative easing
November 7th, 2014
The European Central Bank is ready to pump up to €1tn (£782bn) of fresh stimulus into the flagging eurozone economy to ward off a dangerous deflationary spiral, Mario Draghi has signalled. Draghi, the ECB’s president, said on Thursday that ...
HMRC ‘steps up’ scrutiny of largest businesses
November 6th, 2014
The tax returns of two thirds of the 800 largest businesses operating in the UK are under “enquiry”, HMRC announced after yesterday’s stakeholder conference. Jennie Grainger, director general of enforcement and compliance, told the conference that this did not ...
Governments sign deal against tax evasion
October 30th, 2014
Fifty-one countries have pledged to pass on financial data after signing an agreement in Berlin to crack down on tax evasion. The transparency drive, which will launch the automatic exchange of tax information between countries, was hailed by finance ...
ASIC and MAS sign a Memorandum of Understanding
September 17th, 2014
The Australian regulator, ASIC, and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to allow trade repositories licensed in one jurisdiction to provide relevant data to the authority in the other jurisdiction. Through this ...
World’s leading economies warned over ‘global jobs crisis’
September 10th, 2014
The world’s largest economies are still failing to create enough jobs and too many of those that are being produced are too low quality to generate a meaningful boost to global growth, three leading international institutions warned on Tuesday. ...
IFRS 9 Financial Instruments issued by IASB
July 24th, 2014
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued today IFRS 9 Financial Instruments to complete the final element of its comprehensive response to the financial crisis. The new model removes complexity associated with previous accounting requirements. Hans Hoogervorst, Chairman of ...
OECD Releases New Tax Info Exchange Standard
July 23rd, 2014
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on July 21, 2014, released its new global Standard for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information in Tax Matters, hailing the move as another important step towards greater tax transparency and ...
Bank of England policymakers discuss controls on banks
July 15th, 2014
Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and three other policymakers appeared before British lawmakers on Tuesday to discuss last month’s half-yearly Financial Stability Report, which recommended tighter curbs on mortgage lending. See below for highlights of the remarks from ...
Top banks face wait for detail of new buffer to protect against bailouts
July 8th, 2014
According to a global banking regulator, details of a new buffer of bonds to shield taxpayers from having to rescue a big bank won’t become clear for at least a year or more. Lenders like Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank ...
