Legal
Tax & Regulation | 7 Oct 16
Life-ban for former HSBC relationship manager
Hong Kong’s SFC disqualifies Chen Chia-hui from the financial services industry following her bribery conviction.
Tax & Regulation | 29 Sep 16
Former UK BlackRock fund manager charged with insider dealing
Mark Lyttleton, a former star manager of BlackRock UK Absolute Alpha, has been charged with three counts of insider dealing by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Tax & Regulation | 27 Sep 16
Adviser gets extra prison time for failing to repay investors
A financial adviser who funded a lavish lifestyle from investments in an unauthorised collective investment scheme has had an extra 603 days added to his prison sentence for failing to comply with a court order to repay investors.
North America | 29 Jun 16
Bill to replace Cayman Islands’ ‘secrecy law’ tabled
A bill to replace the Cayman Island’s controversial ‘secrecy law’, which would remove criminal sanctions for the unlawful disclosure of information, has been submitted to the jurisdiction’s legislative assembly.
Investment | 25 May 16
Three sentenced to 20 years over £80m UK Ponzi scheme
Three men convicted of defrauding investors out of almost £80m ($116.4m, €104m) in a London-based Ponzi scheme to fund their lavish lifestyles have been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison.