My new friend at the IMF
This column has often felt lonely ever since it predicted the banking collapse in February 2007, but at last we…
ByYear: 2009
Whitewashed before it starts?
The fear is that Sir John Chilcott is simply a ’safe pair of hands’ who can be relied upon not…
ByGuardian: Swiss canton offers exclusive land to rich
The plans of a Swiss canton to attract the super-rich by offering them the chance to buy property in exclusive,…
ByGet PwC’s pocket tax handbook here
PricewaterhouseCoopers has published the 2009/10 edition of the UK pocket tax book. It provides a summary of UK personal and…
ByObserver: Horlick to be ousted from Bramdean?
Nicola Horlick, dubbed “supermum” for combining a high-flying City career with bringing up a large family, is expected to be…
ByFT: Swiss bankers acknowledge need for compliance
Switzerland’s private bankers are close to accepting their traditional business model of managing the undeclared wealth of foreigners cannot be…
ByNYT: US and Switzerland agree tax treaty
WASHINGTON (AP) The United States and Switzerland have agreed to increase the amount of tax information they share to help…
ByTelegraph: Mistress found guilty of billionaire’s murder
The mistress of Edouard Stern, the billionaire banker, has been found guilty of murder for shooting him dead during a…
BySurvival of the Fastest
McLaren supremo Ron Dennis talks to William Cash about money, motivation, marriage and 25 years at the top of the…
ByAfter the Fall
Christopher Silvester on how private equity is picking itself up, sorting itself out and getting back to basics I t…
ByDream On
Wake-up call? If only. Most of us will sleepwalk through the next catastrophe, just as we did the last one,…
ByGuardian: Obama to reform US regulatory system
Barack Obama will announce a major reform of America’s financial regulatory system later today including tougher powers for the Federal…
ByFurther comment on new hedge fund regulation
The European Commission has acted with surprising speed to produce draft legislation regulating the activities of so-called “hedge funds.” But…
ByThe banking barrier, broken
Then someone said Glass-Steagall was anachronistic, just when old snake-oil wanted to do a good turn for his buddies. Barclays,…
BySurvey Squared
Hedgehog knows that people do not ordinarily like to talk about their wealth, but when your interlocutor is a computer…
ByGuardian: Multinationals to reveal tax by country
The UK is backing calls to force multinational companies to reveal precisely how much tax they pay in each jurisdiction…
ByWBrief: UBS’s credit rating to be cut severely?
UBS’s credit ratings may be cut by more than one notch by the rating agency Moody’s Investor Services, which is…
ByDead. But red?
The death of Jack Jones at the age of ninety-six in April prompted claims that he worked in the Soviet…
ByOver-easing
Well, we all know Gordon can’t make anything work within the normal rules and always needs more money While Tim…
ByJersey Finance: Foundations Law approved
The approval of the Jersey Foundations Law by Privy Council this week has been welcomed by Jersey Finance as a…
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