The Parliamentary Ombudsman (Ann Abraham) has found that: The U.K. should compensate Equitable Life Assurance Society policyholders who lost out when the insurer almost collapsed
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This report is typical of many tonight: UBS admitted it broke U.S. law in setting up sham offshore tax shelters for wealthy Americans and agreed
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The FT has reported that: The distinction between “offshore” and “onshore” financial centres has been dropped by the International Monetary Fund, in a victory for
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The Senate Permanent sub-Committee on Investigations issued a press release yesterday saying (no link yet): At a Thursday hearing entitled, Tax Haven Banks and U.S.
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I listened to the Radio Four programme on the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) yesterday, and was depressed. It’s depressing that CDC and its investment managers
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Mervyn King has apparently admitted in the introduction to the Bank of England’s annual report that the Monetary Policy Committee can have little impact on
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Jim Stewart from Trinity, Dublin gave a fantastic paper at the TJN conference a week or so back showing that Dublin’s International Financial Services Centre
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I expect to find File of 4 on Tuesday 15 July very interesting. The trailer says: Profits before poverty? In 1948, the post-war Labour Government
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Credit card failure will be the next feature of the credit crunch. It’s bound to happen, soon. People are holding out by piling their cards
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