07/09/2013
International law firm hires consultant for wealth planning practice
She has over 15 years experience in corporate and charity law, counting among her experience acting as legal counsel at one of the largest private charity foundations in Hong Kong.
07/09/2013
IFA firm UK Wealth Management founder Peter Jones has set up a legal services company that allows advisers to become partners in the business
07/09/2013
The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted a new rule to implement a JOBS Act requirement to lift the ban on general solicitation or general advertising for certain private securities offerings.
07/08/2013
International law firm turns to Withers for London private client hire
She is qualified in England & Wales, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islan
07/08/2013
The news and information company has an agreement with the University of Michigan to allow some of its clients to receive the data 2 seconds before its other clients
07/08/2013
Clifford Chance may have suffered from a fall in partnership profits, but it hasn’t prevented the partners taking home £1 million each.
07/07/2013
The Committee believes the revised standard will more appropriately reflect the risk of a fund's underlying investments and its leverage.
07/07/2013
Corporate tax avoidance has become a hot political issue following public outrage over revelations in the past year
07/07/2013
The regulatory authorities welcome the publication, by the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors, of the guidance
07/06/2013
The European Union is to push for an agreement on banking and financial services as a key part of this week’s historic trade talks with the US
07/06/2013
Campaigners lobbying against the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
07/06/2013
The two directors left the bank on Monday last week after the arrest of a senior cleric who is accused of plotting to smuggle millions of euros into Italy from Switzerland.
07/05/2013
Although he suffered the losses more than five years ago, and had repaid the debt before last January, Mr Chen regarded this as a breach of contract by UBS.
07/05/2013
Proposals to reform British banking by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards will have a “profound” impact on the industry, the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) has said in its first detailed comments on the report.
07/05/2013
He had been banking on it raising £3.2 billion this financial year—money already factored into the budget.
07/05/2013
THE revelations of wrongdoing currently rocking the Vatican bank couldn't have come at a worse time for the Swiss-born anti-money laundering expert hired to lead the Holy See's push for greater financial transparency.
07/04/2013
He is currently based in our Singapore office with US partner Jay Krause and UK partners Simon Michaels and Philip Munro.
07/04/2013
Under the terms of the agreement UK clients had until the end of May 2013 to decide whether to regularise the past by opting to pay the one-off flat-rate withholding tax or disclosing their assets to the UK tax authorities.
07/04/2013
The final notice said: “As Sovereign is failing, and will continue to fail, to satisfy the threshold conditions, the authority hereby cancels its permission.”
07/04/2013
Swiss bank Credit Suisse said on Friday it sees a maximum hit of 90 million Swiss francs ($94.1 million) from a British-Swiss tax deal aimed at sweeping Swiss banks clean of undeclared money held in accounts of UK clients.