According to the FT: The UK’s financial regulator has given banks and other financial firms until next week to carry out urgent reviews of whether
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I wrote this on March 20 this year: The Mail has reported: A clampdown on tax evaders who have salted cash away offshore will fail
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The world’s media is full of discussion of the so-called ‘Panama Papers’ this morning. This is the leak of 11.5 million documents form Panamanian law
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I couldn’t help but notice this opening paragraph to an article: What is the link between the following political scandals? The Petrobras case in Brazil,
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I am grateful to Jolyon Maugham for noticing an issue in one of the many publications put out by HMRC this week; the plethora presumably
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I noted this in the FT yesterday and did not have time to comment then: The €500 note, beloved by gangsters and Greek savers, is
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The Guardian has reported tonight that: The whistleblower who exposed wrongdoing at HSBC’s Swiss private bank has been sentenced to five years in prison by
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Barclays have been fined £72 million for their failure to apply proper money laundering standards to a single deal, suggested to be worth £52 million
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We all knew the story of HBOS before yesterday’s report. Senior management ran a bank recklessly for its own gain. That’s it. One sentence summarises
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