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Intel Unit Case Could Mean Billions In Taxes For Big Tech

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A tax dispute between Intel and the Internal Revenue Service could cost large technology companies billions of dollars, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Altera Corp, acquired by Intel, which inherited the case, sued the IRS in 2012. The case has been rolling along for years, and the latest ruling was in June.

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CMA Chair Says Regulation On Big Digital Mergers Has Been Lax

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Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a competition regulator in the U.K., said his fellow regulators have been too soft on digital mergers, and consumers have suffered as a result, according to the Financial Times. Facebook acquired Instagram for $1 billion in 2012 and WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014.

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Buying into AML risks in real estate

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Regulations such as Geographic Targeting Order updates help identify AML risks by requiring identification for certain real estate purchases. The limited regulation around the real estate industry has made it especially easy for these bad actors to cycle their dirty money into the financial system using this avenue.

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Bank Of England Tells HSBC To Tighten Fraud, Staff Compliance

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The shortcomings were pointed out by Prudential Regulation Authority regulators. HSBC posted an 18 percent loss in pre-tax profits for the third quarter of 2019 compared to the same period last year, reports said. billion in pre-tax profits, below analyst expectations, with revenue at $13.36 The quarter posted $4.8

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London’s Dirty Little (Money Laundering) Secret

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office were facilitating tax evasion and money laundering. According to FT , no public or private action was taken against the bank by regulators after the information was disclosed. regulators didn’t seem inclined to take any real steps toward looking into the claims about BSI’s role in tax evasion at the time.

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Weird Commerce: ComplyRight, All Those Employment Regulation Signs

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“Our overarching mission is to provide compliance services for small businesses, businesses that don’t have in-house attorneys or tech professionals, to provide the info that small businesses need to comply with employee management and tax reporting requirements,” said Susan Drenning, president of ComplyRight Inc. And on it goes.”.

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Wells’ Woes, Stripe’s Acquisition And North Korea’s New Hacking Groove

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Regulators are reportedly inquiring about how a lawyer for wealthy customers of Wells Fargo came to access so large a trove of customer information. Regulators have reportedly informally reached out to the attorneys involved in the lawsuit underlying the release of information to figure out how the data breach happened.

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