Financial Regulatory Forum

   By David Ljunggren and Andrea Hopkins
   OTTAWA/TORONTO, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Canadian government officials pressed representatives of Swiss bank UBS <UBSN.VX> <UBS.N> on Wednesday for details of Canadians who might be account holders, a spokeswoman for the Canada Revenue Agency said.
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By Yoko Nishikawa and Hideyuki Sano
TOKYO, Sept 1 (Reuters) – Japan’s Democratic Party, fresh from a landslide election victory, discussed the country’s struggling economy with the central bank and finance ministry on Tuesday as the transition to a new government stepped up a gear.

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    SHANGHAI, Aug 28 (Reuters) – The Chinese finance ministry will consider taxing interest income on traded government bonds, serveral sources close to the matter told Reuters.
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   By Kate Kelland and Huw Jones
   LONDON, Aug 27 (Reuters) – The UK Treasury and industry groups on Thursday poured cold water on support from the country’s top market regulator for a global tax to curb excessive bank bonuses.
   Financial Services Authority Chairman, Adair Turner, sparked industry ire after saying a “Tobin” style tax may be needed.
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   ZURICH, Aug 23 (Reuters) – Clients of UBS facing disclosure of their accounts to U.S. tax authorities were not harmless victims, and legal cases against former UBS bankers did not affect the bank, its chairman told Swiss Sunday newspapers.
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   By Jason Rhodes
   BERNE, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Details of a deal to settle a U.S. tax case against Swiss bank UBS AG could come as soon as Wednesday and could have far-reaching implications for other wealth managers.
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    Aug 14 (Reuters) – 150 American clients of UBS are likely to face criminal charges related to tax evasion in the United States, the New York Times reported, citing a person briefed on the matter.
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   By Pascal Fletcher and Lisa Jucca
   MIAMI/ZURICH Aug 12 (Reuters) – The days of secret bank accounts are numbered for Americans after UBS <UBSN.VX> <UBS.N> and the U.S. and Swiss governments agreed to settle a dispute over whether the Swiss bank should be forced to disclose the names of 52,000 rich U.S. clients suspected of tax evasion.
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Swiss in fresh push for UBS tax settlement
   By Lisa Jucca
   ZURICH, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Switzerland is striving to settle a long-running tax evasion dispute between UBS and the U.S. government that challenges Swiss banking secrecy before a key pre-trial conference on Wednesday.
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MIAMI, Aug 7 (Reuters) – The U.S. government, citing difficulties in talks to hammer out a final settlement of its tax-evasion dispute Swiss bank UBS AG, asked a U.S. judge on Friday to delay a trial in the case set to begin on Monday. (more…)