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Guardian: Lords criticise Brown’s regulatory system
The financial regulatory system set up by Gordon Brown in 1997 has been heavily criticised by an influential House of…
ByPictet set to overtake UBS in number of staff
The city of Geneva has escaped the worst ravages of the financial crisis to date, as banking firms in the…
ByTax Special: Blue Skies, Grey Listed
The British Virgin Islands are not like other dodgy Caribbean tax havens and are lobbying hard to have their ‘grey’…
ByReady, Steady, Legislate
The idea that famous people could make good politicians because they are famous is fatuous. Why not elect celebrity chefs?…
ByNew faces of £50 banknote unveiled
The renowned 18th century business partnership of entrepreneur Matthew Boulton and engineer James Watt provides the historical figures to be…
ByDarth Vader knows the answer
This much detail is all available on the public record, so what more does Cheney want? One of the more…
BySuper-wealthy targeted in tax evasion campaign
An international campaign against tax evasion by the super-wealthy has been launched by tax authorities from 34 countries, which pledged…
ByWBrief: Swiss bank pay regs to be unveiled
Swiss financial regulator Finma will unveil rules this week on how Swiss bank can pay staff, the newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported,…
ByWBull: Mon, Liech, And removed from OECD list
European tax havens Monaco, Liechtenstein and Andorra have been removed from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development’s uncooperative tax…
ByWSJ: Wall Street stockbrokers waiving fees
The battle on Wall Street for top-producing stockbrokers is turning into a gold mine for some of their clients. The…
ByTax Special: The View from Switzerland
Spear’s consulted someone with a ringside seat for their view of the Swiss tax situation I t is important to…
ByRouting the hedgies
Expensive regulation already proven on a dramatic scale not to work at all frightens the hedgies The real point is…
ByNukes 'R' Us
Bolivia is a known supplier of uranium, but Venezuela? Of course, reports pertaining to WMD have been wrong before Lest…
ByMeet the UK's Deep Throat
The biggest scandal to rock British politics in 300 years was started by an American freelance writer in London. As…
ByScenes from Everyday Life. Right Now!
Do you have an anecdote about living in our times? We encourage readers to share them in the Comments section…
ByWBrief: UBS restates 08 results, reduces net profit
As presaged in its first quarter 2009 report, UBS has restated its annual results for 2008, producing a reduction in…
ByCantonal banks benefit from financial panic
Switzerland’s cantonal banks have been among the main beneficiaries in the private banking market over the course of the global…
ByExpenses and expressos
Anthony Steen MP is obsessed with coffee. He could talk about it until you felt he really didn’t need to…
ByCoping With It: Stubble
A new cartoon from the sharpest pen: Stubble
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