The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has announced another set of whistleblower awards worth what it said was "almost US$30m" to two "insider whistleblowers whose tips led SEC staff to open an investigation".

A German citizen has posted a petition on the website of the Deutscher Bundestag (German Parliament) which calls on the  German government to intervene with respect to the difficulties many "German citizens" are struggling with as a result of the American tax evasion law known as FATCA – and says he…

Morgan Stanley, the New York Stock Exchange-listed, New York-based financial giant, is to acquire fellow NYSE-listed Eaton Vance Corp., a Boston-based investment firm with outposts around the world, according to a statement issued this morning.

7IM, a privately-held, London-based asset management firm best known to many as the operational base of its co-founder, the famously red-braced and outspoken Justin Urquhart Stewart, has acquired Partners Wealth Management, an advisory firm also headquartered in London.  Although it's not widely known outside of American expat finance and wealth…