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View ArticleLIBOR 2: 15 Biggest Global Banks Face New Foreign Exchange Fraud Probe
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View ArticleCrony Capitalism: UBS, LIBOR, Phil Gramm, And The Junk Bond King
Phil Gramm, former US Senator, former Chair of the Senate Banking Committee, former UBS bank Vice Chairman, now suspected of probable direct knowledge of UBS involvement in the LIBOR scandal, to which...
View ArticleAaron Swartz's Alleged "Crime" And the Business of Breaking the Law
Not surprisingly the groundswell of reaction on the Internet today to the death of Aaron Swartz has focused on the obscene juxtaposition of the charges against Aaron, already dropped by MIT, the...
View ArticleLIBOR 2: 15 Biggest Global Banks Face New Foreign Exchange Fraud Probe
It appears that international banking fraud and market manipulation continues unabated. The newest scandal brewing involves Swiss, British and American banks manipulating foreign currency exchange...
View ArticleUBS Back In The News: Tax Evasion Scheme, LIBOR, and Arbitrage Fraud
UBS has confirmed it is being investigated by US authorities into whether it helped Americans evade taxes through investments banned in the US. Former UBS wealth management executive, Raoul Weill,...
View ArticleKPMG Canadian Tax Scheme Suspiciously Similar to UBS Tax Evasion Fraud
Canada is routinely cited as a boring backwater in financial services that has none of the scandals plaguing the rest of the industry. But in an extraordinary investigative report on The National,...
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