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Certain oligarchs helped fuel the protests that toppled Yanukovych. Others have been targets, too. Most favor closer trade with Europe
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Global banking giant HSBC was accused of 'soar-away boardroom greed' today as it revealed plans to swerve an EU cap on huge bonuses.
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Britain's biggest bank awards staff 'fixed pay allowances' to side-step restriction on bonuses imposed by Brussels Britain's biggest bank, HSBC, has inflamed the row over City pay by awarding allowances to more than a thousand of its top staff,...
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A controversial trade deal being touted by the White House is expected to give American corporations broad new authority if approved. Now according to newly released documents, big banks gave millions to the execs that are now orchestrating the agreement.
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Prosecutors are casting their net wider in the long-running Libor interest rate rigging investigation, revealing charges Monday against three former employees of Barclays.
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With the world's most powerful finance ministers meeting in Sydney this weekend, the G20 is well placed to tackle the problem of multinational companies avoiding tax, writes Tom Allard.
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The G20 is the perfect place to deal with a lot of problems, but the patrons of greed will undermine any efforts to end tax avoidance.
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The Bank of England has launched a “full legal review” into claims that its officials gave tacit approval to collusion among foreign-exchange traders, now part of a major international investigation.
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Lock up the guilty, throw away the keys and watch the victims cheer.
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The U.K. markets regulator notified a bank manager and a rate submitter that they face penalties for their involvement in manipulating benchmark rates in the first civil cases against individuals in the global probe.
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China Insurance Regulatory Commission chairman Xiang Junbo had asked JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon to do him a "favour" by hiring a young job applicant, a family friend of Xiang, who now worked at the bank, The New York Times reported yesterday, citing a confidential JPMorgan e-mail.
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Within the past few weeks, at least three high level bankers and one financial journalist have either died due to mysterious circumstances that officials have quickly labeled as 'suicides', or disappeared without a trace.
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A further six individuals are to face criminal charges in connection with the Libor scandal, the Financial Times has revealed.
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It's time for dishonest, greedy Libor bankers and traders to occupy prison cells across the planet. My recommendation: Lock them all up and throw away the keys.
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Is Ireland a tax haven? The Irish government bristles at the question, given rising interest in cracking down on offshore financial centers, but research from a Trinity College professor is pretty definitive: Yes, it is.
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If you didn't know before, now you do.
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Citigroup can't seem to get out of its own way. The sprawling global banking giant finds itself once again ensnared in an international business scandal—this time in Mexico—which threatens to ding its bottom line. The latest problem for Citi, which could potentially deliver a blow to its reputation, centers on a Mexican fraud scandal that has...
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British and American authorities investigating bad behavior at large banks have reached an uneasy truce.
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Concerning the future of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the president is expected to accelerate talks and negotiations to play import/export with other nations to ensure profits for rich countries and control one-third of global trade.
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While the penalties wouldn’t set records, “these fines are unusually high and reflect the severity of the Libor scandal and the regulator’s view of the behavior that has taken place,” said Richard Burger, a regulatory lawyer in London.
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Perk Hixon, a powerful New York investment banker, on Friday become the latest Wall Street high-flyer to crash into Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara’s sprawling insider-trading probe.
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Voters have "zero tolerance" for well-heeled thieves, so this will come as good news to those who want to see more long sentences for the parasites of finance.
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You might find your Prime membership morally indefensible after reading these stories about worker mistreatment
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Boycott Amazon.com. We do, and you should too. Don't feed the beast that bites you without cause.
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The Financial Conduct Authority, one of Britain’s financial regulators, has issued warnings to two individuals that it planned to charge them for misconduct related to the rigging of Libor.
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Apple (finally) acknowledges its connection to illegal tin mining
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If you didn't know, now you do.
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The Bank of England gave permission for currency traders to share information about their order books, behaviour that is now the subject of an investigation by the City watchdog and that has already led to several senior foreign exchange dealers leaving their jobs.
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Union leaders were scathing of Barclays' decision to hike bonuses while scrapping jobs, while Business Secretary Vince Cable called for "a responsible banking sector which rejects the bonus-fuelled culture of the past".
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This outrage is not over, because the fallout is just beginning.
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Former New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin was convicted of 20 charges of fraud for accepting payoffs for contracts.
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Stay tuned for sentencing. Since this guy's a crooked ex-politician, voters may want the judge to "throw the book at him." We'll see.
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That Barclays simultaneously announced a huge profit hit while raising its bonus pool today ruffled investors’ feathers.
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This news is long overdue, but most welcome.
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