01/13/2014
    
    
    
      The U.S. Supreme Court signaled interest in an appeal by the liquidator of Bernard Madoff’s firm, asking the Obama administration for advice on suits seeking $8 billion from banks alleged to have helped funnel money into his Ponzi scheme.    
  
  
  
  
  
    
       01/08/2014
    
    
    
      More than two years after they were originally proposed, on December 10, 2013, the federal banking agencies, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission adopted final regulations to implement Section 13 of the Bank     
  
  
    
       01/08/2014
    
    
    
      Switzerland’s largest federal court told the nation’s tax authority not to disclose data about the bank account of a client of Julius Baer Group Ltd. to the U.S., after the Internal Revenue Service made an invalid request.    
  
  
    
       01/08/2014
    
    
    
      Signing bonuses, often referred to as 'employee forgivable loans' are paid by firms to brokers and other licensed securities professionals up front and structured as loans forgiven over time, typically a seven-to-10-year period.     
  
  
  
  
    
       01/07/2014
    
    
    
      The decision contrasts with the approach taken last year in the case of J.P. Morgan's "London whale" trading debacle, where two former traders were charged with hiding losses on runaway bad bets that cost the bank more than $6 billion.     
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
       01/06/2014
    
    
    
      This revelation comes at a time when data and employee privacy issues, often triggered by investigations, are dominating the headlines and major corporations are facing increased regulatory scrutiny around anti-bribery and corruption legislation