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Fraud investigation into Mayfair-based hedge fund

13.11.09
Founder of a London hedge fund being probed by Serious Fraud Office investigators denies any wrongdoing... more

Fears grow of City exodus over 50% tax

13.11.09
The news that 50 of BlueCrest's millionaire hedge fund traders are fleeing London to set up camp in Geneva has sent shockwaves through the City... more

SFO probing hedge fund

12.11.09
Bust London-based hedge fund Dynamic Decisions Capital Management is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office ... more

The millionaire, Chester Square and the scandal of London's empty mansions

26.10.09
He's rich enough to retire for good, so why does Mark Guard spend his days with a ragtag band of squatters occupying empty townhouses in some of London's most exclusive districts?... more

QPR forced to wait for a decision on Flavio Briatore ban

08.10.09
Queens Park Rangers fans were left sweating today as the Football League delayed making a decision over whether Flavio Briatore can continue as their co-owner... more

The exodus of the rich begins

02.10.09
The friend dropped his bombshell. He was clearing off. He'd worked it out: soon he would be paying 50 per cent income tax as a high earner, the changes to personal allowances would add another 10 per cent and then there was VAT... more

Millions for 45 former Barclays bankers

17.09.09
A group of 45 bankers stand to make more than £240 million between them after they quit Barclays to take on a contract to manage £7.5 billion of the bank's riskiest assets... more

England cricketer Pietersen ‘target of £80million Madoff-style fraud'

21.07.09
England Test cricketers are believed to have been targeted by a suspected fraud gang in a “Bernie Madoff-style” scam... more

Victims of £80m fraud are 'in denial'

20.07.09
Hundreds of victims of an £80million pyramid fraud are in denial that they have been ripped off, say police... more

Great shakes! Greek 'mixologist' is the best of bartenders

17.07.09
Greek cocktail 'mixologist' has beaten thousands of competitors to be crowned Bartender of the Year at a ceremony in London... more

Lessons in probity from a wobbly three-legged stool

22.06.09
Here at the Evening Standard, we start work early in the morning. Which means that when I drive to work the roads are usually virtually empty... more

‘Homeless billionaire’ set to take over Pearl with £520m

03.06.09
Hugh Osmond is selling a controlling stake in his Pearl insurance empire to one of America’s most unusual financiers ... more

Chelsea winner grows his own ingredients for scent of Good Queen Bess

19.05.09
When Laurie Chetwood discovered a 400-year-old recipe for a perfume worn by Queen Elizabeth I, he spent a year growing the ingredients... more

Brown’s £24bn Post Office windfall

11.05.09
John Ralfe, the pensions consultant, did a public service over the weekend when he blew the whistle on the Government’s plans for the Royal Mail pension fund ... more

UK warning as Obama cracks down on tax havens

05.05.09
A crackdown by Barack Obama on offshore tax avoidance by US firms could lead to more draconian rules in the UK ... more

‘Locals will suffer’ in curbs on tax havens

09.04.09
The local population of offshore tax havens could be plunged into poverty if Gordon Brown’s plans to clamp down on these regions come to fruition, an expert warned... more

OECD removes tax havens from blacklist

07.04.09
Four nations will no longer be blacklisted as uncooperative tax havens after they bowed to pressure from world leaders and agreed to implement new rules on financial openness, an international organisation said... more

Monaco lifts the veil on tax secrecy

16.03.09
Monaco is to follow Switzerland in moving to open up its books in the latest victory in the battle against tax havens... more

Letting Lehman go under was Paulson’s big mistake

12.01.09
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Swiss bank’s crafty strategy shows how difficult it is to clamp down on tax havens

05.01.09
Analysis: As anger mounts about the global economic meltdown, Barack Obama and other leaders are promising a war on offshore tax avoidance. But as this investigation into Swiss bank Julius Baer reveals, it will be a huge challenge... more

Troubled waters ahead for these offshore havens

09.12.08
A few years ago, to escape the tyranny of a different newspaper, I moved to the Cayman Islands - the hedge fund capital of the world... more

Bear Stearns hit by higher claims

04.07.08
Damages claims over the high-profile collapse of two Bear Stearns subprime mortgage hedge funds have spiralled... more

Tom's woodland garden wins

20.05.08
Tom Stuart-Smith is the hot designer of the moment, the odds favourite to win at Chelsea Flower Show... more

Hedge funds fight hard for Northern Rock compensation

20.05.08
Legal Analysis A hedge fund that bought heavily into Northern Rock is claiming its human rights were violated when the mortgage lender was nationalised in February... more

Troubled heir to the £5bn Tetra Pak fortune

10.04.08
Crack cocaine, the drug of the backstreets, is not something one would normally associate with Hans Kristian Rausing and his American heiress wife... more

The most fun places to eat in London

09.04.08
Forget stuffy restaurants, these London eateries put the frivolity back into food.... more

A Chancellor who keeps on selling himself short

01.04.08
Alistair Darling seems too scared about upsetting the City audience that Labour spent years winning over to do anything worthwhile... more

Non-doms deserve a good taxing

14.02.08
Sometimes it pays to throw a wobbly. Wealthy non-domiciled businessmen have thrown an almighty tantrum over Government plans to tax them £30,000 a year, threatening to up-anchor and sail away on their super-yachts. Alistair Darling, in a bid to calm them down, has agreed to exempt them from any prying into their assets or earnings outside the UK... more

2007 roars in with music, fireworks and a lion

02.01.07
New Year 2007 kicked off in the capital with a fireworks spectacular followed by the New Year's Day parade, which was watched by more than half a million spectators.... more

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