Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Assessing possible sources of systematic risk from hedge funds

In the conclusion to this report, the FSA state that:-
The results from this survey work were mostly in line with our expectations. The HFACS data suggests that on 31 October 2009 major hedge funds did not pose a potentially destabilising credit counterparty risk across the surveyed banks.

FSA returns £270,000 to victims of share fraud

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has recovered approximately £270,000 as a result of action taken against companies involved in a share fraud activity.

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Framework to give businesses greater certainty on tax policy

The Government has published a draft Tax Framework for business. Developed in discussion with the Business-Government Forum on Tax and Globalisation, the document is intended to provide greater certainty for large businesses about the Government's approach to the development of tax policy