06/07/2012
The claimant, who has been granted anonymity, brought the judicial review proceedings to challenge a decision made by the Regulatory Decisions Committee to issue a decision notice against him in October 2010.
05/31/2012
Ex-UBS employees, including former Managing Director Sachin Karpe, are accused of unauthorised transactions on 39 client accounts, of which 21 reported substantial losses.
05/28/2012
A StanChart spokeswoman said Ms Wu Yidian Eden, a naturalised Singapore citizen, has been released from custody. The bank is not being investigated and Ms Wu remains an employee.
05/28/2012
Zeltner said UBS had assets under management of over 300 billion francs in Europe, over 170 billion francs in Asia, around 110 billion francs in emerging markets and 130 billion in Switzerland.
05/28/2012
The Financial Times reported that the SFO had relied heavily upon Grant Thornton for information it used to build its case against Vincent Tchengui and his brother Robert, while the accounting firm was acting as administrator for Kaupthing.
05/22/2012
Switzerland could declare in the words of Voltaire, "Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies."
05/21/2012
Spangler served as chairman and CEO of one of the companies, which is now bankrupt. Spangler's risky investments were inconsistent with the investment strategies that he promised his clients and contrary to their investment objectives, the SEC says.
05/17/2012
Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan’s chairman and chief executive, and Douglas Braunstein, the bank’s finance director, are accused of breaching fiduciary duty to investors and wasting the bank’s assets in a suit filed in New York by Californian sha
05/16/2012
Failure to take reasonable care to establish and maintain adequate AML systems and controls went on for three years, the FSA said, and the firm was exposed to an ‘unacceptable’ risk of money laundering.
05/16/2012
The Swedish Fiscal Policy Council, a state agency that evaluates government policy, said it saw little risk the country would breach spending ceiling rules in the coming years and instead urged the government to slacken spending constraints.