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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 ...

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 ...

JP Morgan has created a unified global structuring team, which includes new and expanded roles for a number of senior staff. Structuring had been split between sales and trading at the bank, but, ...

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 ...

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 ...