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UBS’s global head of fixed income structuring, Adrian Bracher, has left the bank, sources say. Bracher joined the Swiss bank ...

I have been following the travails of Kent Hovind for over two years. Doctor Dino, as he is known, is a proponent of Young Earth Creationism, the notion that you can arrive at the age of the Earth by ...

It seems appropriate that the crime of structuring is also sometimes called smurfing. Generally speaking, structuring is the act of breaking up financial transactions to get around the federal ...

Structuring is commonly defined as to construct or arrange according to a plan; to give a pattern or organization to. It sounds straightforward and benign enough, but in financial markets, structuring ...

Structuring is a white-collar crime that involves moving large sums of money secretly by breaking them down into smaller amounts. Also known as “smurfing,” it describes the act of dividing illicit ...

As parents, one of our highest priorities is to provide for our children and secure their future. Part of this responsibility involves planning and structuring wealth in a way that empowers them to ...

One of the more obscure, and strangest, provisions in the federal criminal code – the “anti-structuring” provisions in 31 USC 5324 – is much in the news these days. “No person shall, for the purpose ...

RBC Capital Markets has named Geoffroy Samarcq as its new head of multi asset quantitative investment strategy (QIS) structuring, effective July 2025. The new role will see Samarcq managing the multi ...