03/02/2018
It announced the ICO launch in October last year and said at the time the offering would be legally compliant with SEC rules using an instrument called the Simple Agreement for Future Tokens.
03/02/2018
The U.S. Justice Department instructed Wells Fargo in late 2017 to investigate its wealth management business
03/01/2018
Regulator issues subpoenas to parties engaged in booming market for initial coin offerings
02/28/2018
Also on January 5, 2018, investigators from the Manhattan DA’s office seized six artifacts from New York antiquities dealers Phoenix Ancient Art.
02/28/2018
The project we are launching today will enable us to better understand the options for improving the application of transfer pricing rules in Brazil, and achieving greater convergence.
02/26/2018
A procedural prudence standard and a suitability standard are similar in that they both require the fiduciary to demonstrate they are acting in best interests of another.
02/26/2018
SS&C has been providing global, middle- and back-office and performance measurement outsourcing services for more than 20 years.
02/26/2018
Roomy Khan, who was jailed for financial crime in US, says a professional culture encouraging fraud led her to insider trading
02/26/2018
The statement also said State Street will monitor the companies’ lobbying activities.
02/23/2018
The Court’s opinion in Digital Realty v. Somers[2] resolved a circuit split between the Ninth and Second Circuits, on the one hand, which had agreed with the SEC’s interpretation, and the Fifth Circuit, on the other.
02/21/2018
There is no doubt that the cybersecurity landscape and the risks associated with it continue to evolve.
02/20/2018
FCA and US CFTC ink FinTech innovation deal
The Financial Conduct Authority and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have today signed an arrangement that commits the regulators to collaborating and supporting innovative firms through each other’s financial technology initiative
02/16/2018
Two Sentenced in $10 Million Investment Fraud Scheme
More Than 60 Victims Left in the Lurch
02/15/2018
The development comes in the same week as the Zurich-based bank reported a net loss of $1bn for 2017, largely attributed to American income tax expenses.
02/12/2018
What the advent of contract analytics could mean for the future function of corporate legal departments.
02/12/2018
The lawsuit offers a rare glimpse inside the $11 billion firm, which is run by one of Wall Street’s most fabled traders and is a huge source of business across the banking industry.
02/11/2018
Contrary to what they had promised the client, Geoffrey Walsh put the properties in the name of his business, failed to furnish her with loan or title papers and then sold off some of the properties without her authorization to cover his own personal expe
02/11/2018
Merrill, which believes it can receive more sympathetic hearings in trial courts than in arbitration, has been arguing that the stock in the executives’ plans was issued by Merrill Lynch & Co.
02/11/2018
A Credit Suisse spokeswoman tells the newswire that the suit has no merit and that it’s standard practice for Wells Fargo and other brokerages to cover the deferred compensation of new hires in such instances.
02/11/2018
“All regulatory reviews were closed without any action against Credit Suisse,” it said.