REGULATION

Colombian star has been living in Spain with longtime partner the Barcelona footballer Gerard Piqué.

The EU's revamped Markets in Financial Instruments Directive on brokerage commissions brings with it a new system, reducing access to, and distribution of, company research.

Dr Desné Masie considers a possible common international approach to regulating Bitcoin aired by world leaders at Davos.

JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon again warned that a bad Brexit deal may mean cutting 4,000 jobs from the firm's UK base.

Prime minister Theresa May said that cryptocurrency regulation in the UK is being "very seriously" looked at by authorities.

US Department of Justice had launched an investigation into the bank's foreign exchange business.

Liz Field, chief executive of investment management lobby group, tells IBTimes UK the British capital is where the "world's business happens."

Its not just another banking regulation, but rather a strategy, which demands operational and infrastructure change.

Ofwat says decline in financing costs for water companies will be passed on to customers from the beginning of next decade.

Fast moving digital landscape could leave CFOs lagging behind on the global competitiveness scale, report says.

Calvin Klein underwear, among hoodies, fans and shoes impounded by UK officials.

Legal practitioner and IBTimes UK columnist Martin Kenney writes 2017 has been another mega year for financial scandals.

Railway Industry Association says reopening old routes would deliver "huge economic benefits" to the UK.

Cable says 'systematic tax avoidance' is causing significant damage to the Treasury and public finances.

Benoit Coeure, a senior central banking official, says "economic agents could become less anchored to actual activity and more prone to manias and panics."

Competition and Markets Authority says Canadian firm Concordia abused its dominant market position to overcharge for a key thyroid drug.

Despite being called out for 'relentless embezzlement and extortion', Equatorial Guinea's vice president walked away from a French court with a suspended jail sentence.

In one instance, the regulatory agency said that a "habitual offender" who had previously escaped from prison was released and became an Uber driver.

Automaker says its minivans have no safety issues contrary to claims by the group.

HSBC's Swiss private banking unit alleged to have helped wealthy clients avoid taxes by French prosecutors.

Landmark ruling sees company lose ruling its drivers should be classed as workers rather than self-employed.

Dominic Wheatley says sensationalist reporting is deliberately designed to undermine legitimate business acts of offshore centres.

Spectacle happened at the trial of former Russian economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev, the highest-ranking official to have been arrested on corruption charges since 1993.

However, finance ministers meeting in Brussels remain divided over how and where to tax online companies that operate across the European Union.

Molly Scott Cato, Green MEP for South West England and Gibraltar, has sat on three consecutive inquiry committees into tax avoidance as a member of the European Parliament.

Angel Gurria tells CBI conference recently sensationalised tax practices were being clamped down on and no longer the norm.

From Kobe Steel to Shoko Chukin, Nissan to Subaru, a growing number of corporate fiascos ought to make Japanese enterprises confront their governance demons.

Government unveils plans to fix the maximum bet on FOBTs between £2 and £50, down from the current £100.

New report says recent double-digit annual growth rate in lending would be unsustainable if it continued at the same pace.