Everything Compliance-Episode 12
In recent years, the UAE has continuously updated its legal framework to enhance regulatory oversight and adapt to global financial trends. One significant development is the amended Federal Decree-Law No. 14/2018 on the...more
President Vladimir Putin issued a decree, “On Special Economic Measures in connection with the Unfriendly Actions of the United States of America and Other Foreign Countries” (Decree), on 28 February. This is the first decree...more
China is operating increasingly on a cashless basis. In 2020, cashless transactions amounted to US$49 trillion, accounting for every four out of five payment transactions. The Chinese government has now taken a large leap in...more
Due to the current unstable situation in the world financial and local currency markets due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the National Bank of Kazakhstan has started changing currency control regulations. This...more
Government Suggests that Unusual Pleas are Just the Tip of an Iceberg - Chinese law generally prohibits its citizens from converting more than $50,000 in Chinese yuan into foreign currency in a year. On Monday, two men...more
The Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) through Resolution No. 19-05-01, published in the Official Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela No. 41.624 on May 2, 2019, authorized the creation of "exchange desks," by means...more
Several members of healthcare hedge fund Deerfield Mgmt have been implicated in an insider-trading case over the alleged use of confidential information about gov’t financing to trade shares in affected health care companies....more
China’s infamous shadow banking industry—an $8.5 trillion marketplace that’s sprung up in reaction to the government’s “campaign against financial leverage”—is back and bigger than ever these days....more
The headline a few days ago was the arrest of VW exec Oliver Schmidt during an ill-advised trip to Miami last week. But the DOJ also indicted five other top executives over their role in VW’s emissions cheating scandal. No...more
Some early signs of the focus of SoftBank’s “hugely ambitious” $100 billion investment fund are beginning to emerge, and at first blush, it appears a majority of the cash will land in private and public markets rather than...more
The Chinese government has enacted new rules severely limiting foreign currency transfers out of China. The scope of the limitations are not clear but the Xinhua News Agency reported that Chinese banks advised their customers...more
Former NJ Senator and Governor Jon Corzine has reached a $5 million settlement with regulators over the collapse of his MF Global firm, which filed bankruptcy in 2011 and lost more than $1 billion in customer investments....more
Some good news for the UK after a brutal few days for the pound? It appears that the pound’s precipitous fall has acted as a sort of “giant shock absorber” against Brexit—a release valve of sorts that has meant decreased...more
It’s not quite in the 9-year AIG/Greenberg territory, but it’s been five years since the Feds started investigating former NJ Senator and Governor Jon Corzine and his role in overseeing the collapse of brokerage firm MF...more
Following news of Starboard Value’s plan to shake things up at Perrigo, we have this take from Breakingviews, which suggests that fending off a hostile takeover (as Perrigo did from Mylan) tends to “make fertile turf for an...more
We heard last week about Unilever’s $1 billion acquisition of start-up Dollar Shave Club. With a few days to reflect, the Deal Professor suggests that this relatively innocuous deal should make “every other company . . . very...more
The German bund broke new ground yesterday by going negative—the first 10-year debt offering in the Eurozone to do so—and still going like gangbusters. Germany sold $5.3 billion in the bonds....more
The Federal Reserve is now tossing around a proposal that would “effectively place[] a cap on how much business banks can do with another bank or company”—the idea being to prevent the 2008-era mistake of Wall Street banks...more
China’s once again halted trading after the CSI 300 dropped 7% in early trading. Worries about China led to a rough day throughout Asian markets, likely setting the stage for another big drop on Wall Street ahead – WSJ and...more
The move’s been in the works for some time, but it was still a big deal yesterday when then IMF officially added China’s renminbi to its designation as an approved world reserve currency. The renminbi—also known as the...more
During 2014, the number of enforcement actions brought by federal banking agencies1 continued a downward trend that began in 2011. Federal banking agencies issued 661 formal enforcement actions, representing more than a 55...more
If there is one industry that needs an ethics overhaul, it has to be the financial industry. The list of transgressions continues to grow – AML/sanctions, LIBOR, Foreign Exchange Currency Cartels and Market Manipulations,...more