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Barnier pushes for European transaction tax

Nine countries urge Danish presidency to speed up creation of draft EU-wide financial transaction tax directive

10 Feb 2012

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Time to re-think our bonus schemes?

Maybe bonuses should be linked to social economic cost reductions and not just profit margins

10 Feb 2012

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Colin: Top Cat

Fred's still Top Cat

01 Feb 2012

Samuel takes senior FSA role

Chartered accountant Will Samuel appointed FSA senior advisor

31 Jan 2012

Colin: Excessive fat cats

Colin's take on recent bonus decisions

30 Jan 2012

Colin: A rolling bonus

Colin's takeon RBS CEO's bonus cap of just under £1m

27 Jan 2012

Colin: Abra Cadabra bank problems sorted

Colin's take on BoE financial stability director Andy Haldane's suggestion of different accounting methods for banks

23 Jan 2012

Banks don't need a separate accounting regime

Accounting regimes for different business models won't work, says Iain Coke

20 Jan 2012

Haldane calls for seperate bank accounting regime

Bank of England's Andrew Haldane calls for seperate accounting regime for banks

20 Jan 2012

Goldmans audit head joins RBS

Nicholas Crapp to leave Goldman Sachs for Royal Bank of Scotland role

19 Jan 2012

Colin: Fattening up the cats

Royal Bank of Excess

11 Jan 2012

Swiss bankers face US tax investigation

Three bankers charged for helping clients shift assets out of UBS

04 Jan 2012

Analyst warns against Barclays' tax focus

Seymour Pierce analyst says that the bank's focus should be on customer service and not complex financial structures

04 Jan 2012

Financial services 'paid more than 12% of total tax take'

City of London report claims banking and finance sector contributed £63bn to the Exchequer last year

16 Dec 2011

Lawyers mull Goodwin case over RBS accounting

Government considers whether former RBS chairman Fred Goodwin has a case to answer over RBS' accounting

15 Dec 2011

Watchdog considers probe of Deloitte’s RBS audit

FSA passes on its report ito RBS' near collapse onto the AADB

13 Dec 2011

Banks fight HMRC over £200m bonuses bill

Tax tribunal to hear Deutsche Bank and UBS cases in February 2012

05 Dec 2011

AS2011: bank levy to increase revenue by £200m a year

Chancellor announces shock increase to bank levy to raise £310m a year

29 Nov 2011

AS2011: Bank levy rising to 0.088% in 2012

Bank levy on profits wil rise to 0.088% from 0.075% as of 1 January 2012

29 Nov 2011

Hedge fund supports Tobin Tax

Witon Capital boss gives backing for a "small" financial transaction tax

28 Nov 2011

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Penny Avis' book Nevermind the Botox Rachel

Video: From corporate finance to author

Rachael Singh interviews self-published author and former Deloitte partner Penny Avis on her novel "Nevermind the Botox Rachel"

ABI wants cover for insurance accounting

With insurance accounting up in the air, the ABI wants the right balance between consistency of application while avoiding the burden of new rules

Permanently check out of business record-keeping scheme

Taxman should find a better use of its 120 Business Record Checks staff, says Kevin Reed

Bankruptcy tourism - it's not a holiday

Foreign nationals may think it is an easy ride to bankrupt themselves here, but Neil Smyth warns it is just as tough

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The benefits and pitfalls of partnership status

Solicitor Tim Marshall explains the issues to bear in mind when thinking about your firm's structure

Who’s not Who?

IT SEEMS Deloitte's CEO David Sproul has been left in the shadows by colleague Louise Brittain.

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