Dealing with politically exposed persons is already a hot potato and it is set to become hotter as financial institutions and regulators digest the recent report from the UK's Financial Services Authority. Nigel Morris-Cotterill, Head, The Anti...
When the organisers of Singapore's National Day parade wrote a spoof on the Lady Gaga song "Bad Romance" they did nothing wrong. And they did nothing wrong when they...
Under the heading "Reminder: Report Certain Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts to Treasury by June 30," the USA's Inland Revenue Service has issued a statement aimed at all US tax payers.
Trade Suites Limited was incorporated on 28 October 2008 and its registered office is at Hill Dene House, Main Street, Staxton, Scarborough. But it operated its business over the internet with a warehouse in Bridlington, Dorset, at the other end...
A US Federal Court in Florida has ordered the payment of a penalty of more than USD17 million due to alleged fraud by a company and its officers. But there is one vital point: this was not a criminal trial and so no "crime" is alleged....
Mr Hoong Kee Tang, a former director of Wintech Group Limited, which is in administration, has been arrested and charged with market manipulation...
The UK's Bribery Act 2010 comes into force in less than a month. Time to panic?
Oh, yippee. Someone wants to pay us USD10 million to help them in a money laundering scheme. And yet, he wants us to give him some background on...
In the north-east of England, in a small town called South Shields, a revolution of sorts has begun. The South Tyneside Council (STC), the local...
The (no longer Royal) Hong Kong Jockey Club's reputation continues to take a battering as the Independent Commisssion Against Corruption (ICAC) l...