Company formation in India has gradually evolved from a procedural exercise into a strategic legal decision. Earlier, many ...

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The indictment of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert has brought new attention to the crime of structuring. The attention is energizing the supporters of Kent Hovind, who is nearing the end of a long ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Team and group collaboration is an increasingly important component to many workplaces, including brainstorming ideas, co-writing reports, and working together to solve complex problems. In this ...

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 ...

Goldman Sachs is building out a tool used by institutional clients for pricing derivatives. Visual Structuring will now cover crypto, equities, and precious metals options, in addition to FX. Chris ...

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 ...