Lockerbie's secrets
There should not be any confusion about the evidence that indicated Libyan responsibility, but al-Megrahi may be one player in…
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Bloomberg: Pictet expects more US attacks on Sw
Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) — Jacques de Saussure, managing partner at Pictet & Cie., Switzerland’s biggest closely held private bank, expects…
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Regarding the stiff, sugary edifices of Mich Turner’s spectacular cake creations, one gets the feeling that this baker isn’t awfully…
ByNYT: UBS diamond-smuggling banker gets 3 years
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) A former banker described by prosecutors as the man most responsible for igniting a investigation into…
BySTel: Saudi billionaires engaged in NY fraud trial
A Saudi billionaire with stakes in some of Britain’s biggest companies is at the centre of a multi-billion-dollar fraud that…
ByWBull: Cerberus asked for $4bn in redemptions
Clients controlling more than $4bn (-2.8bn) of the $7.7bn in assets in the Cerberus Partners hedge funds have put in…
BySunday Times: Ferguson vs Krugman in intellectual punchup over economy
One of them is a “poseur”. The other is “patronising”. One suffers from “verbal diarrhoea”. The other is a “whiner”.…
BySunday Times: Close Bros bids for Kleinwort
Close Brothers has tabled a bid for Kleinwort Benson, the private banking group, pitting itself against a rival consortium of…
BySwiss govt to sell off UBS stake after case resolved
The Swiss government is to sell its entire SwFr 6 billion investment in UBS, it announced late Wednesday night. The…
ByIntelligent Regulation Needed
You can regulate smartly, or you can over-regulate stupidly. Knee-jerk reactions like we are seeing at the moment inveiably seem…
ByNYT: US to prosecute at least 150 UBS clients
Federal prosecutors are building criminal cases against 150 wealthy American clients of the Swiss banking giant UBS as part of…
ByNYT: UBS settlement details expected soon
Details of the landmark settlement of the U.S. tax case against UBS are expected this week, which should help the…
ByHello, Folly!
Worse, Samantha Spiro cannot even sing well. Vamping your rasping way through the climax of a song is not a…
BySpear’s defies recession, regains independence
Spear’s, the multi-PPA-award-winning wealth management magazine that was started in 2005 has been taken independent again as a stand-alone title…
ByBlow me over
So as one energy company is looking to grace the fields around the small village in Northamptonshire where I live…
ByGlen of Dreams
Wendy Coumantaros exeriences the style and relaxation of the south coast’s Chewton Glen, with its award-winning restaurant and spa Wendy…
ByTimes: Tom Perkins finally sells 289ft yacht for £60m
It required some trimming of the price, but a buyer has finally been found for the largest and most expensive…
ByUBP, hit by Madoff, sees AuM fall by 20%
Union Bancaire Privee, the Geneva private bank which got badly snarled in the $65 billion Bernard Madoff fraud, suffered a…
ByWBrief: Deutsche in talks to bid for Sal Oppenheim
Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest bank, confirmed recent media speculation by announcing that it was in talks to form a “strategic…
ByCaptions Required: Bull!
Dealbreaker, one of spearswms.com’s favourite blogs, has come up with this pic and we want your captions. Dealbreaker, one of…
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