Yesterday UK Chancellor Phillip Hammond made a number of announcements and updates in the Autumn Budget 2018. You can see all things Autumn Budget and several summaries on the BBC website here. In our most in depth Your Thoughts piece to date, Lawyer Monthly rounds up the country’s leading experts in a variety of sectors, […]
With ongoing discussions around the Cypriot failure to tackle money laundering and economic crime, global banking expert Robert Lyddon discusses US efforts to force the island to improve its policies. On June 14th 2018 the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) sent a circular to all Cyprus’ banks enjoining them to better and more complete Due […]
What are the possible tax reporting issues that crop up with Smart Contracts? Below, Jimmy Royer, Principal and Alan G. White, Managing Principal, at Analysis Group, Inc., conclude that the SEC and IRS will need to develop different monitoring approaches, frameworks and guidance for private blockchain systems that will most likely be used. As new […]
New research from Acritas reveals the dramatic growth of the Big Four’s legal brands among alternative legal service providers. This Index has been established to identify the strongest brands within this new and rapidly growing part of the broader global legal industry. Senior in-house counsel were asked to name organizations that provide legal services, excluding […]
Below Lawyer Monthly hears from Nicola Sharp, of award-winning business crime solicitors Rahman Ravelli, who explains why recent fraud statistics cannot be ignored by anyone in business who wants to prevent it happening to them. It appears that we may be in the midst of an epidemic of fraud cases coming to court. Research carried […]
Countries that want to promote innovation are coming to recognise the difficulty of innovating without regulatory certainty. For the uninitiated to the concept of the Regulatory Sandbox – in simple terms – it is flexible regulatory framework in which traditional and non-traditional institutions are able to test technology driven products that may not fit traditional […]
At companies and institutions around the world, pensions are collapsing and vulnerable consumers are paying the price. Lloyds Banking Group, for example, is in the midst of a multi-million dollar lawsuit that alleges that women received fewer benefits than their male counterparts. At the same time, Future Income Payments, a private pension fund based in […]
Following John McDonnell’s suggestion that the Big Four auditing firms (Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Touche, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers) be split up, Professor Paolo Quattrone, Chair in Accounting Governance and Social Innovation at the University of Edinburgh Business School, argues that unless the public function of auditing is restored, auditing will continue to regularly fail and that greater […]
Figures just released show that the SFO is increasing its use of raids in criminal investigations. Aziz Rahman, of business crime solicitors Rahman Ravelli, explains how and why such raids should be challenged. The number of raids carried out by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to gather evidence for criminal investigations more than tripled in […]
A recent survey by MHA, the national association of independent accountancy firms we are a member of, revealed that total external funding per equity partner in small and mid-sized practices decreased significantly in 2017, ranging from £42,000 in the smallest firms to £228,000 in the largest, compared with £156,000 to £506,000 last year. While reducing […]
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