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States are trying to hide information about how public employees’ retirement money is invested. Via Jocelyn Stoller 
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The Central Bank of Russia intends to stop banks from operating in-house foreign exchange (Forex) markets or offering the service to Russian customers, according to the First Deputy Governor Sergey Shvetsov.
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New documents reveal years of growing worries about currency markets before the regulators struck
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The blue and gold megastore is based in Holland and Luxembourg to avoid taxes
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Governments are not flush enough to contemplate a second wave of bailouts, which leaves the problem of too ‘big to fail’ unsolved, writes Larry ElliottA look into the future: David Cameron’s nightmare has come true; the slowdown in the global...
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They seem unlikely bedfellows, but as Jean-Claude Juncker comes under increasing pressure over his generous approach to corporate tax when he was prime minister of Luxembourg, the new president of the European Commission may be able to count on a...
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Investigation by lawyer looks into possible manipulation of money market auctions in 2007 and 2008The Bank of England is investigating whether staff knew or even aided possible manipulation of auctions it held at the onset of the financial crisis...
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Treasury Select Committee chairman warns that a reforms programme must not be watered down
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Bank of England governor’s proposals to curb excessive risk-taking include putting non-bonuses or fixed pay on the line Mark Carney has warned bankers that they could lose more of their pay – in addition to forefeiting their bonuses – after a...
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The arrangements - used by top companies including vacuum cleaner company Dyson and drugs group Shire - were signed off by the European Union state and are all legal.
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"If the banks had the same scrutiny over the traders and their own managers as they have over the camera crews standing outside it, we might not have this situation."
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Regulators in US and UK mete out record fines after finding a free for all culture on currency trading floors at RBS, HSBC, Citibank, JP Morgan and UBS. The corruption of the worlds biggest currency dealers was laid bare on Wednesday when regulators...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five former employees of Bernard Madoff, convicted in March of helping the fund manager bilk investors of billions of dollars in his massive Ponzi scheme, will be sentenced this week,
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Danny Martin Wilkinson, Colin John Goodman and Darrell Paul Read are expected to face trial in September, along with three former traders from two British brokerage firms.
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During Facebook s early years, the company barely noticed Washington, taking a full five years to spend its first dime on federal lobbying. Then, the company s investment in the capital began growing rapidly, alongside its revenue and ambitions.
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If Walmart paid a living wage, "I could buy clothes for my kids to wear."
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Twenty-five years after co-writing Barbarians at the Gate, Bryan Burrough marvels at Wall Street’s enduring appetite for excess
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From the French platform on tax havens Plateforme Paradis Fiscaux et Judiciaires, coordinated by CCFD-Terre Solidaire and Secours Catholique Caritas France, a new report looking at the first figures published by French banks this year, under... Via Investors Europe Stock Brokers
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MOSCOW — There is nothing new about offshore tax shelters. In ancient Athens, after the government decided to levy a 2% tax on all trade operations, merchants started avoiding the city, conducting business on the surrounding islands instead.
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Shielding them from flashing share prices may help, but in the long term we need to change what it means to be a banker altogetherThere is something in the culture of banking that lends itself to making otherwise fairly good people do bad things.
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Six years after the 2008 financial crash, we are finally recognising that the banking industry is “rotten to the core” (Editorial, 13 November).
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The unit is accused of helping wealthy individuals hide billions of dollars in assets by creating offshore companies in places like Panama and the Virgin Islands.
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Anonymous Hades's insight:
Dear Congress, "What part of "no" don't you understand?" - Reba McIntyre
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Banks including Bank of America Corp., Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Barclays Plc and Citigroup Inc., asked a judge to throw out claims they cheated customers on interest-rate swaps and other Libor-based transactions.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
There are individuals in this world who have no class, no honor & no shame. They are the Libor bankers who are in desperate need of a time-tested intervention called, "incarceration."
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