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Compliance in the financial services sector has never been as important as it is today. The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für...

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Germany Taps Swiss Expert To Fix Broken Watchdog Advertisement May 06, 2021 In August, Mark Branson will officially take the helm of Bafin, the German finance watchdog. The British-turned-Swiss banker is once again called to the rescue to clean up and supervise a federal agency that has become too cozy with the financial institutions it regulates. Bafin failed to foresee the collapse of the payment company Wirecard. Branson, 52, knows the banking industry inside out and has had international e...

Wirecard inquiry: Germanys political and financial elite exposed 12 minutes to read By: Guy Chazan and Olaf Storbeck It was an innocuous question, posed shortly before midnight some nine hours into an exhausting parliamentary hearing into the Wirecard scandal. "Did you ever actually own Wirecard shares?" Cansel Kiziltepe, the Social Democrat MP, asked Ralf Bose, head of Germanys auditor watchdog Apas. His answer caused a political earthquake and brought an abrupt end to his mo...

Daniel Thelesklaf (Image: LinkedIn) Swiss Crimefighter Wins U.N. Policy Role after less than a year in the job. The United Nations Center for Policy Research named  Daniel Thelesklaf its project director of FAST, which stands for Finance Against Slavery and Trafficking, it said in a statement on Monday. Thelesklaf will move to New York for the project, part of the United Nations University, later this year. The appointment comes nine months after the veteran Swiss lawyer-crimefighter abruptl...

Swiss Watchdog Sees Lessons to Learn from Archegos Collapse Bloomberg 2 hrs ago Nicholas Comfort and Birgit Jennen (Bloomberg) -- Switzerland’s top financial regulator said the collapse of Archegos Capital Management LP will have consequences for how banks deal with risk as one of the country’s biggest lenders counts its losses from exposure to the investment firm. Popular Searches “This will be meticulously examined and there will be lessons, maybe for regulators, maybe...

Switzerland’s top financial regulator said the collapse of Archegos Capital Management LP will have consequences for how banks deal with risk as one of the country’s biggest lenders counts its losses from exposure to the investment firm.

Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Carlson Capital, Westbeck Capital Management, Archegos Capital Management, Insight Partners, African Rainbow Minerals Ltd (AFBOF), Arista Networks Inc (ANET), and More The exodus at Clint Carlson‘s eponymous hedge-fund manager continues. The $4.8 billion Dallas-based firm has lost several top executives recently including chief legal officer Joe Brucchieri, head of human resources Nicole Mascera, and deputy chief legal officer Whitney Fogle Lewis. Chief ri...

The head of Switzerland's financial regulator FINMA questioned Credit Suisse over risks in its dealings with now-insolvent finance firm Greensill Capital "months" before the bank was forced to close $10 billion of funds liked to Greensill, Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung...

Message : Required fields ZURICH (Reuters) - The head of Switzerlands financial regulator FINMA questioned Credit Suisse Group AG over risks in its dealings with now-insolvent finance firm Greensill Capital "months" before the bank was forced to close $10 billion of funds linked to Greensill, Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported on Sunday. Alongside formal discussions on a technical level between the bank and FINMA, the watchdogs head Mark Branson personally discussed the risks with out...