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PRO Compliance | Canada | 16 Nov 2020
Canada’s ability to prosecute those within the private sector who retaliate against whistleblowers has provided a significant incentive for company executives to protect individuals who report possible misconduct, a Canadian lawyer said at Global Investigation Review's Women in Investigations conference.
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PRO Compliance | Central & Eastern Europe, European Union, France, etc. | 28 Oct 2020
Switzerland’s antitrust authority has fined Crédit Agricole and HSBC a total of €6 million for colluding to manipulate the Euro Interbank Offered Rate, while also closing two investigations into NEX International for its suspected role in rigging other benchmark interest rates.
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PRO Compliance | United Kingdom, USA | 27 Jul 2020
A UK court has denied UBS’s request to throw out competition law claims filed by a US governmental agency, which accuse the bank of colluding with 11 rivals to manipulate the pound-to-dollar exchange rate.
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Squire Patton Boggs | United Kingdom | 27 Mar 2019
The Financial Conduct Authority has imposed a fine of £27,599,400 on UBS AG for breaches of transaction reporting obligations imposed by MiFID (the…
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Hardwicke | United Kingdom | 21 Mar 2019
Indian business tycoon, Mr Vijay Mallya, was once dubbed “the King of Good Times”. However, over the last two years, £1.14 billion of his assets have…
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Global Investigations Review | France | 1 Mar 2019
Lawyers acting for UBS have accused French judges of ignoring legal arguments and caving to public pressure to hand down a penalty against the Swiss…
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Stephenson Harwood LLP | European Union, United Kingdom | 30 Jan 2019
When a finance document gives a lender the right to exercise a power or discretion it is common for borrowers and their lawyers to add "acting…
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Steptoe & Johnson LLP | USA | 20 Dec 2018
On December 17, 2018, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) announced that UBS Financial Services, Inc. (“UBS”) had entered into a…
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Ogier | USA | 19 Dec 2018
The value of regulated funds serviced in Jersey has hit a record high over the £300 billion mark - and signs point to continued growth in 2019, says…
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Squire Patton Boggs | United Kingdom | 7 Dec 2018
Where a lender has the absolute discretion to do something under a loan, their position will be protected according to the recent High Court decision…