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  • California Attorney Sentenced To Prison In Scheme To Hide Millions In Secret Swiss Accounts At UBS AG and Pictet & Cie

    Date 19/03/2014

    California attorney Christopher M. Rusch was sentenced to serve 10 months in prison for helping his clients Stephen M. Kerr and Michael Quiel, both businessmen from Phoenix, hide millions of dollars in secret offshore bank accounts at UBS AG and Pictet & Cie in Switzerland, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.   U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg also ordered Rusch to serve three years of supervised release following his prison sentence.   On Feb. 6, 2013, Rusch pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government and failing to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR).   Kerr and Quiel were sentenced in September 2013 to each serve 10 months in prison after both were tried and convicted of filing false income tax returns for 2007 and 2008.   The jury also convicted Kerr of failing to file FBARs for 2007 and 2008.  

  • Portuguese Stock Exchange Presents Capital Markets To SMEs - 2nd Via Bolsa Conference

    Date 19/03/2014

    Euronext, a wholly owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange Group (NYSE: ICE), today announced that for the second consecutive year, on 20 March 2014 in Porto, the Portuguese Stock Exchange will be presenting the capital markets as an alternative source that can and should be used more actively by enterprises , especially SMEs , in order to meet their development needs and financing options.

  • NYSE Liffe Sets Daily Volume Record In FTSE 100 Index Futures

    Date 19/03/2014

    IntercontinentalExchange Group (NYSE: ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, today announced that NYSE Liffe reached a daily volume record of 862,468 contracts in FTSE 100 Index futures on March 18, 2014. The previous record of 822,496 contracts was set on March 17, 2009.

  • Thai Alternative Bourse Aims To Strengthen Companies, List More Quality Firms

    Date 19/03/2014

    The Market for Alternative Investment (mai), under The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) group, will focus on increasing the number of quality listed companies, including ensuring that the companies which are not ready for listing and social enterprises (SEs)  can access funding conveniently, and boosting market capitalization, said  newly-appointed mai President Prapan Charoenprawatt.

  • Thomson Reuters Launches A Managed KYC Service In Partnership With Banks, Corporates And Asset Managers And In Consultation With Regulators - Thomson Reuters Transaction Services Limited, A FCA-Regulated Business, And Its 7,000 Bank And Buy-Side Clients Are Live On The Service

    Date 19/03/2014

    Thomson Reuters today launched a new solution to support financial institutions and their clients to increase efficiency and reduce costs in complying with Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements. Accelus Org ID was developed in partnership with leading financial institutions, corporations, asset managers and hedge funds and following discussions with nine regulators from key financial markets around the world. Providing a complete managed service covering the on-boarding of clients, risk categorization and risk screening, Accelus Org ID allows financial institutions to more effectively respond to new and ongoing regulatory requirements around the world.

  • SGX To Launch New Order Types For Securities

    Date 19/03/2014

    Singapore Exchange (SGX) will enhance the types of orders for the stock market from 31 March 2014.

  • Speech By Neelie Kroes, Vice-President Of The European Commission Responsible For The Digital Agenda: The Data Gold Rush

    Date 19/03/2014

    Nearly 200 years ago, the industrial revolution saw new networks take over. Not just a new form of transport, the railways connected industries, connected people, energised the economy, transformed society.

  • Grant Biggar Joins Algomi As Strategic Advisor - Credit Derivatives Specialist Brings Two Decades’ Experience In Global Credit Derivatives

    Date 19/03/2014

    Algomi, the provider of information-matching solutions to optimise fixed income liquidity, has named Grant Biggar as a Strategic Advisor, effective immediately. Biggar, the former President of Creditex, has also made an investment in the company. His appointment comes follows Howard Edelstein’s appointment to a similar role at Algomi.

  • STOXX Introduces STOXX Japan Strong Balance Sheet Indices

    Date 19/03/2014

    STOXX Limited, a leading provider of innovative, tradable and global index concepts, today introduced the STOXX Japan Strong Balance Sheet Indices, which select stocks according to their Altman Z-Score, a quantitative measure for the financial and fundamental health of a company. The new indices are designed to act as an underlying for exchange-traded products (ETPs) and other investable products, as well as benchmarks for actively managed funds. Furthermore, they can be replicated passively.

  • Global Finance Names The World’s Best Emerging Markets Banks In Asia-Pacific 2014

    Date 19/03/2014

    Global Finance magazine has named the World’s Best Emerging Markets Banks in Asia-Pacific in an exclusive survey to be published in the May 2014 issue. Global Finance editors—with input from industry analysts, corporate executives and banking consultants—selected the best emerging markets bank in the region and in 30 countries. Criteria for choosing the winners included growth in assets, profitability, strategic relationships, customer service, competitive pricing, and innovative products. In addition, for the first time, a poll of Global Finance’s corporate readership was conducted in order to increase the accuracy and reliability of the results.