07/11/2012
The charges were the first brought in the probe, which was opened in April after a preliminary inquiry by the French customs service into a February 2011 complaint by the Prudential Control Authority, France’s banking regulator.
07/11/2012
A former St James’s Place adviser has been awarded “substantial damages” and legal costs after the Mail on Sunday newspaper alleged the adviser had stolen £5m from clients.
07/10/2012
The investments averaged about 500,000 euros with individual cases of 12 million euros and more, the newspaper said.
07/10/2012
U.S. prosecutors may take criminal or civil enforcement measures involving the London-based bank amid an investigation into terrorist funding, HSBC said in February.
07/10/2012
The newspaper referred to so-called Bermuda products designed as insurance-style instruments to avoid tax.
07/09/2012
India joins countries including the UK and the US in cracking down on rich people who haven’t disclosed offshore funds amid probes into money laundering and tax evasion.
07/09/2012
In an email dated October 22, 2008, from Sir Jeremy Heywood, then principal private secretary to Gordon Brown, to Paul Tucker, then head of markets at the Bank of England, he asks why Barclays is paying “ABOVE Libor” to fund in the sterling mo
07/09/2012
Representative Edward Markey on Monday released data from the companies showing more than 1.3 million requests for cell phone records last year.
07/09/2012
The panel has been investigating HSBC for months as part of an effort by the Senate panel to probe shadowy money flows.
07/09/2012
Recent changes to the French tax system announced by president Francois Hollande’s government may not be so serious for British and other owners of French properties, believes UK regulated specialist mortgage broker Offshoreonline.org.
07/08/2012
The FDF, which is equivalent to Finance Ministry in Switzerland, has said in a report on international financial and tax matters for 2012 that the country is at the forefront of global efforts to tackle cross-border financial crime.
07/08/2012
Royal Bank of Scotland is fighting a court order requiring it to co-operate with an international criminal investigation into allegations its staff fixed a key banking lending rate.
07/08/2012
Media’s ‘bad apple’ theory no longer works
07/05/2012
The government said it would seek Parliament approval for €7.2 billion ($9.08 billion) in extra taxes this year.
07/05/2012
HSBC Millionaire Client Fined for Swiss Bank Tax Evasion
He was convicted Wednesday of cheating the public revenue at Wood Green Crown Court.
07/05/2012
The Financial Services Authority has told advisers they must make it clear to clients who manages their investments when outsourcing to a discretionary fund manager.
07/03/2012
A San Francisco-based broker must pay more than $904,000 to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc, which has been aggressively clawing back bonus money that it paid to brokers before its demise in 2008.
07/02/2012
private client lawyer Fiona Byron and litigation lawyers Julia Bryden and Angus Wood have also been promoted
07/02/2012
The new French Socialist government has promised to reinstate the country’s old wealth tax rate and increase income tax, enough to make wealthy taxpayers think seriously about leaving for greener Swiss pastures.
07/02/2012
The bankers at the heart of the Barclays interest rate-rigging scandal could be prosecuted for fraud