04/11/2016
Four decades of documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which specialises in setting up offshore companies and has offices in Zurich and Geneva, showed widespread use of those instruments by global banks and triggered investigations around the
04/11/2016
Forbes 400 member Igor Olenicoff, who pleaded guilty in 2007 to the felony of lying on his federal tax return about $200 million he kept hidden offshore for years.
04/11/2016
The committee formed to develop the gold standard will meet once more next Sunday and then submit the proposal to AAOIFI’s Shariah Board, he said in an interview in Dubai on Sunday.
04/11/2016
Switzerland is the world's largest center for offshore wealth, with Boston Consulting Group estimating that around $2.5 trillion in foreign assets was kept with the country's banks in 2014.
04/11/2016
The research found that Royal Bank of Scotland has paid out £6.4bn in misconduct charges but there has been no dividend for shareholders since the financial crisis. RBS has paid £3.8bn in bonuses to staff.
04/11/2016
The Panama Papers show ABN Amro has at least six subsidiaries which operate as nominal shareholders.
04/08/2016
The two firms have been shortlisted in the ‘Connaught Provincial Law Firm of the Year’ category and P O'Connor & Son Solicitors has also been shortlisted for ‘Irish Language Practitioner of the Year
04/08/2016
One of only three firms to be shortlisted in the legal category, this award is yet another milestone in the firm's drive to be the global leader in the highly competitive private client space.
04/07/2016
The “Panama Papers” revelations have shone the light on Panama’s culture and practice of secrecy.
04/07/2016
Europe football body scoured for contract mentioned in the Panama Papers with broadcast rights allegedly sold for cheap.
04/07/2016
An extended version of the interview with David Haigh is in today’s Yorkshire Evening Post.
04/07/2016
The firm's co-founder Ramon Fonseca told Reuters that the firm filed complaints with the Attorney General's office in Panama.
04/07/2016
Police have arrested 21 people with ties to well-known Shanghai investment firm Zhongjin Capital Management, accused by police of illegal fundraising in China's rowdy and chaotic wealth management industry. Municipal police said in a statement on th
04/06/2016
Ex-State Street executives charged in US for defrauding clients
Two former high-ranking executives of a Boston-based financial services company, which is one of the world’s largest asset managers and custody banks, have been charged with engaging in a scheme to defraud at least six of the bank’s clients th
04/06/2016
He welcomed moves for greater transparency and called on other locations that had not done so to introduce a regulatory regime that enabled them to know and share information on the beneficial owners of companies with appropriate authorities.
04/06/2016
Charities & Philanthropy | April 2016 - Withers
With the rules relating to Registers of Persons with Significant Control coming into force tomorrow (6 April), we provide a short update for charities and their trustees.
04/06/2016
There couldn’t be a worse time for venerable Hamburg-based Berenberg and Mr. Peters, its current lead partner and top executive, to be drawn into the Panama scandal.
04/06/2016
The term tax haven may evoke images of exotic locales, but Panama actually ranks as the 13th most attractive spot for hiding assets, while the US ranks third
04/05/2016
India's Rich And Famous Named In Panama Papers
The list boasts a touch of Bollywood glamour with veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan and his daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, a former Miss World featuring on it.
04/05/2016
Apple’s tax affairs spark a transatlantic face-off
Washington calls foul over the EU inquiry — amid anger over a $1tn offshore cash pile