Legal, Regulation, Risk & Compliance
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Widened Probe Into Hibor Manipulation to Include HSBC, Other Banks
06/19/2013The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has expanded its probe into possible manipulation of the city's benchmark interbank lending rate
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Probe into Hibor manipulation widens in Hong Kong06/18/2013The monetary authority did not identify the banks added to its probe of submissions for Hibor, the Hong Kong Interbank Offered Rate.
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KYC laxity at private banks has put us to loss: SBI
06/17/2013The country's top three private sector lenders have already been penalised by Reserve Bank for KYC violations.
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Global law firm appoints new Hong Kong partner 06/17/2013
He has spent 26 years advising on public M&A and equity capital markets transactions.
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China grants 5 licences to overseas investors in May06/17/2013
China granted licences to five overseas institutional investors in May,allowing them to buy Chinese stocks and bonds.
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HSF overtakes Bakers as biggest international firm in the region
06/17/2013The Lawyer Asia Pacific 150 reveals that newly merged Anglo-Australian firm Herbert Smith Freehills has taken over Baker & McKenzie as the largest international firm in Asia Pacific by lawyer headcount.
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KWM continues management shake up with two new practice heads
06/15/2013King & Wood Mallesons has appointed two new practice heads in Australia
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RBS dealt fresh blow by Singaporean regulator
06/15/2013The Royal Bank of Scotland has been dealt a fresh blow after Singapore’s financial regulator ruled some of its traders attempted to manipulate inter-bank rates.
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SMA censures ANZ, Macquarie Bank after review forced by Libor scandal
06/15/2013ANZ and Macquarie Bank have been censured by the Singapore Monetary Authority after a major review of benchmark settings in the wake of the Libor scandal.
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Multinational law firm goes back to Bakers for latest Asia hire06/14/2013
She also defended MasterCard in US antitrust litigation initiated by American Express and Discover concerning alleged exclusionary practices, which settled in 2008.
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David Ross charged over alleged Ponzi scheme06/13/2013
A Ponzi scheme uses cash from new investors to pay returns to existing members, who typically think they are reaping the rewards of an astute investment plan.
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Singapore Regulator Said to Plan Bank Reprimand on Rates06/13/2013
The island nation’s review into possible manipulation of the Singapore interbank offered rate follows a global crackdown on rigging of benchmark borrowing costs by banks and brokers.
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Credit Suisse fined HK$1.6m by SFC06/12/2013
Credit Suisse Securities has been fined more than HK$1.6m by the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong.
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Singapore QROPS Investors Win Battle For Court Challenge
06/12/2013QROPS retirement savers battling to stop HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) snaffling more than half of their pension pots have won permission to challenge the tax man in court - See more at: http://www.iexpats.com/singapore-qrops-court-challenge/#sthash.MODoV
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Davis Polk hit by $1.4m lawsuit from recruiter over Clifford Chance HK hires06/11/2013
Davis Polk was “unjustly enriched” by sealing the hire without Metz
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US and Japan agree Facta co-operation
06/11/2013Intergovernmental Cooperation to Facilitate the Implementation of FATCA and Improve International Tax Compliance"
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Seyfarth Shaw raids HSF for double Australia launch
06/11/2013US employment firm Seyfarth Shaw has expanded into Australia by taking on eight employment partners from three firms, Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), Ashurst and Arnold Bloch Leibler.
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ASIC continues crack-down on financial service providers06/10/2013
Former CEO gets three-year ban
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In China, fake European wine more worrying than tariffs
06/10/2013"It's the most magnificent example of a hijacked brand of wine I've ever seen," says Paumard
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RBI fines 3 private banks for violating KYC norms
06/10/2013The central bank, however, said its investigation of these banks did not reveal any prima facie evidence of money laundering.
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