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When you're the wealthiest governor in Florida's history, it may be hard to remember just how much cash you have. 
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American drugmaker AbbVie is dropping a planned merger with the Irish company that makes Adderall, saying that new Treasury Department rules meant to crack down on deals done solely for tax purposes had nixed the plan.
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A $76 million penalty against RBC Capital Markets is the latest message from the Delaware courts about skewed loyalties in deals. But Reynolds Holding of Reuters Breakingviews ask whether Wall Street is really listening.
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According to reports in the Sunday Times on 12 October, Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland, along with JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and UBS, are likely to agree to fines totalling as much as £1.5 billion before the end of next month as they become the first banks to admit involvement in alleged attempts to rig the trading in major currencies.
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Former Chicago Bull Scottie Pippen has taken the stand for the government in a bank-fraud trial.
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Two men have already pleaded guilty in the US to fraud offences linked to the rigging of Libor, for years the benchmark by which trillions of pounds of financial contracts are based.
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Forget the ever-diminishing middle class, banksters have found a new target – prisoners.
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A day after the US Treasury sought to plug loopholes that encourage companies to move their tax residence offshore via takeovers of foreign firms, leading business associations said it was the wrong way to slow the departure of US companies wanting to lower their tax bills.
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Hindu leader Rajan Zed said in a statement released Wednesday that the Hindu community is against the so-called yoga tax in D.C.
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Nikesh A. "Nik" Patel, the hotelier and banker hit with federal fraud charges , has been a prolific political donor this year.
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Plus, Retina Display iMacs, smack talk from Larry Ellison, monster leeches and robot octopi!
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New York trial ends as jurors decide Jordan-based bank knowingly financed payments for families of suicide bombers A US jury said on Monday Arab Bank Plc provided material support to Hamas, and must therefore compensate the victims of two dozen...
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I thought that the government rescue of General Motors initiated by the George W. Bush administration and expanded by Barack Obama was ill-advised.
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Jobs Minister Richard Bruton has said the scrapping of the "Double Irish" tax loophole provided certainty for companies who know the days of their activities are numbered.
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From
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There are lots of headlines out of Dublin today about the end of the “double Irish,” a notorious tax break used by multinational companies to avoid paying government levies around the world.
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The former CEO of AIG, the insurance giant, is suing the government for overstepping its authority by rescuing his company during the 2008 bailout.
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Pricey law suits force evidence into the public domain, and so we learn that a bailout intended to bolster confidence in the system “push money into the hands of Goldman Sachs..."
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The stingy retail behemoth finds yet another way to hurt its workers.
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Authorities in three continents are probing allegations that dealers leaked confidential client information
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"We are all sinners, and we too can be tempted to take over the vineyard, because of that greed which is always present in us human beings. God's dream always clashes with the hypocrisy of some of his servants," the pope said.
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DILIGENT villagers have rallied to fight plans for 16 new homes as developers come back for ‘another bite at the planning cherry’.
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A former Las Vegas police detective has been charged with committing fraud while he investigated financial crimes.
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Banks and regulators have still not found a way to be sure of stopping traders from manipulating Libor, foreign exchange and other benchm
Anonymous Hades's insight:
In this case, there's no mystery or puzzle to be solved. Stiff prison sentences will go a long way toward reducing the culture of criminality in the banking industry.
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Chinese and European regulators crack down; PBOC readies for possible changing of the guard; European private lending down.
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City regulator slaps bank with record fine, the latest in a string of penalties, for failing to separate clients assets properly. Barclays is to be fined £38m for breaching City rules requiring clients funds to be kept separate from its own assets,...
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