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Barclays Manipulated Gold as Soon as It Stopped Manipulating Libor
May 26th, 2014
If you were writing a paranoid fantasy of gold price manipulation you’d be hard pressed to come up with something more on the nose than the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority’s order against Barclays. It has everything; it is the ...
eBay makes users change their passwords after hack
May 22nd, 2014
Online marketplace eBay is forcing users to change their passwords after a cyber-attack compromised its systems. The US firm said a database had been hacked between late February and early March, and had contained encrypted passwords and other non-financial ...
Co-op Group’s stake in Co-op Bank set to fall
May 9th, 2014
The Co-operative Group is set to see its 30% stake in the Co-op Bank reduced further under a plan to shore-up the bank’s finances. As a result, a group of investors who injected almost £1bn into the bank last ...
HMRC seeks powers to recover tax debts from ISAs
May 7th, 2014
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is looking to increase its powers to allow it to take tax debts directly from individuals’ ISAs. In this year’s Budget, the government gave HMRC the power to recover tax debts of over £1,000 ...
China Buys Friends and Influences Nations
May 6th, 2014
If you can’t beat them, outspend them. That seems to be the thinking behind a huge new infrastructure investment fund being promoted by China as an alternative to established international lending agencies. It’s a terrible rationale for starting a ...
Delinquent IRS employees paid bonuses by the agency
April 23rd, 2014
The IRS was in damage control mode Tuesday after an audit revealed that it paid bonuses to employees who were in trouble over tax issues themselves. More than $2.8 million, plus thousands of hours of paid time-off, were doled ...
Bitcoin promoter breaks silence on Cyprus fraud allegations
April 22nd, 2014
Danny Brewster, CEO of the defunct Cyprus-based bitcoin promoter Neo & Bee, has broken his silence, taking to the social networking site reddit to respond to allegations that he defrauded investors and skipped the country, racking up about 1 ...
How much is your personal data worth?
April 22nd, 2014
British ministers are looking at changes that will allow HMRC to sell taxpayers’ data to third parties. Putting aside the privacy issues, how much is personal data worth? As this paper reported last week, ministers are considering changes in ...
Credit Suisse profits down 34 percent
April 16th, 2014
Swiss bank Credit Suisse says net profit fell 34 percent in the first quarter as bond-market woes hurt earnings at its investment banking business. Profit fell to 859 million Swiss francs ($979 million) from 1.303 billion francs in the ...
How about… A Global Tax on the Superrich?
April 14th, 2014
Bill Gates washes his own dishes, as we learned this year from his Ask Me Anything session on Reddit, but he’s certainly not trying to save money. The world’s richest person is doing everything in his power to decrease ...
