05/10/2017
Data leak reveals details of 70,000 offshore firms in Malta
'Malta is the Panama of Europe,' says NRW minister Walter-Borjans
Legal,Regulation,Tax & Compliance
05/10/2017
The Global Privacy Handbook 2017: key developments in 58 jurisdictions across the globe
This Global Privacy Handbook offers a glimpse of notable privacy developments and emerging privacy issues and trends in 58 jurisdictions across the globe.
05/10/2017
Spear's rates Withers’ family team in Family Lawyers Index 2017
Recently appointed as head of the London family team after Julian's successful decade at the helm, Suzanne Todd is rated as ‘A superb lawyer who leads by example’.
05/09/2017
Tax traps for unwary immigrants
The test for citizenship is relatively straightforward.
05/09/2017
IMF Guides On Taxing Wealthy Taxpayers
The report points out that in 2015 an estimated 34 million HWIs worldwide had accumulated wealth of at least USD1m each.
05/09/2017
Advisers stand by Old Mutual amid replatforming U-turn
Nearly 90 per cent of advisers say they won’t shift platform despite provider backtracking on replatforming deal
05/08/2017
BEPS Action 13: OECD releases CbC reporting implementation status and exchange relationships between tax administrations
More jurisdictions will nominate partners with which they will undertake the automatic exchange of CbC Reports under the CbC MCAA in the coming months.
05/08/2017
Asset managers set to miss Mifid II deadline on research
Regulatory uncertainty has been one driver of fund firms’ delay in facing up to the changes.
05/08/2017
Cautionary fraud tale for pro athletes with sudden wealth
They want to avoid joining a long list of pros who have been steered into questionable investments.
05/06/2017
OECD launches facility to disclose CRS avoidance schemes
In total, 100 jurisdictions have agreed to start automatically exchanging financial account information in September 2017 and 2018, under the CRS.
05/04/2017
Married banker, 36, ‘pimped out’ to wealthy Arab client in bid to land £25m account
The woman claimed the client bombarded her with love songs and inappropriate text messages
05/04/2017
Credit Suisse says tax probe linked to historical business
Its quarterly financial report released on Thursday, adding it was cooperating with the authorities.
05/04/2017
HSBC finance chief attacks accounting rule changes as bank’s profits leap 12%
This is a good set of results
05/04/2017
Managing regulatory and compliance risk at investment management firms by Doug Dannemiller, Lynette DeWitt, Ankur Gajjaria
Even before 1917, when a case before the Supreme Court referenced speculative securities schemes that had no more value than a patch of blue sky,1 regulatory agencies have attempted to protect investors from fraud, and provided frameworks for fair and ord
05/04/2017
Non-dom art collectors in UK could be hit with new taxes
Even works held and sold abroad could be liable for UK tax
05/04/2017
UK Introduces Criminal Offence For Facilitating Tax Evasion
The legislation will make corporates liable not just for tax evasion facilitated by their employees but also external agents and service providers.
05/04/2017
Basel 3, an international capital-adequacy standard, is unloved but much needed
International bank regulation is grinding towards completion—or possibly to a halt
05/04/2017
Spain names 7 former HSBC bankers as suspects in money laundering case
At the heart of the Spanish case are accusations that HSBC helped Spanish clients to transfer abroad and later repatriate funds “with the intention of hiding them from the public treasury”, the High Court said.
05/03/2017
TISE launches Channel Islands and Isle of Man segments
Companies are eligible for inclusion on the Channel Islands or Isle of Man segments if they are trading companies
05/03/2017
Critical Anti-Tax Evasion Legislation Under Attack
The forum could have been an opportunity to spur reasoned debate to address some of the issues raised by FATCA.