04/15/2015
Italy Removes Offshore Jurisdictions from Tax Blacklist 21 countries that are now considered to have an adequate level of tax information exchange with Italy have been removed from the Italian tax blacklist.
04/14/2015
Vatican to share information
Vatican City signed an information sharing agreement with Italy earlier this month
04/14/2015
P Profit and Protection: Techniques for Future Success - Withers
One of the most common hurdles to creating a tax efficient offshore IP structure is the effective transfer of the IP from the United States abroad
04/14/2015
Insolvency Petitions Down Across Most Offshore Jurisdictions in 2014 - Appleby
Investors Turn Away from Petitions and Toward New Opportunities, Appleby Reports
04/14/2015
The institution’s paper on the asset management industry and financial stability covered various issues it believed needed to be raised and potentially regulated against.
04/14/2015
Customers are being asked to prove they have paid any taxes due, according to a dozen lawyers for banks or their customers.
04/13/2015
In searching for an Investment Book of Record (IBOR), financial institutions (FIs) need a solution built to address the need to record, process and distribute investment data in the different views required by stakeholders.
04/12/2015
New regulations aside, megatrends will demand that advisers align themselves with clients
04/10/2015
The battle of the billionaires over a spit of land in the exclusive Bahamas enclave of Lyford Cay heated up again as hedge-fund manager Louis Bacon traded accusations with Canadian clothing magnate Peter Nygård over who is the most obnoxious neighbo
04/10/2015
Swiss Banking Whistleblowers to Appear at Offshore Banking Conference
The Wall Street Journal reports that Swiss bank whistleblowers Bradley Birkenfeld and Hervé Falciani are schedule to take part in a panel discussion at the OffshoreAlert Conference in Miami Beach May 3-5.
04/10/2015
10 Notorious Tax Cheats
In 2002, after UBS signed up for a program that required it to share more information on U.S. depositors with U.S. authorities, he went to Europe again to move his funds to a Swiss bank with fewer U.S. ties, this time holding it in the name of a Liechten
04/09/2015
US official: 'Stay tuned' for more Swiss bank deals over tax evasion
As a result of leads from banks involved in the voluntary disclosure program
04/09/2015
International Monetary Fund says delegating investment decisions to large asset managers, as many savers do, can ‘induce destabilising behaviour’
04/09/2015
Compared to non-residents, they barely even register on the scale
04/09/2015
France is the latest nation to investigate activities at HSBC's Swiss private bank amid new allegations surrounding tax affairs.
04/08/2015
High-flying banker nicknamed 'Crazy Miss Cokehead' by bullying male colleagues is awarded £3.2million compensation for harassment
A high-flying banker nicknamed 'Crazy Miss Cokehead' and 'Miss Bonkers' by bullying male colleagues has been awarded £3.2 million for sexual harassment
04/08/2015
A Tweede Kamer hearing about remuneration in the financial sector became confrontational between MPs and three major companies’ executives
04/08/2015
Vanoli, account holders will be called to testify
04/08/2015
Virginia Roberts’s accusations about Andrew ordered to be struck from the record as judge denied her attempt to join a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein
04/08/2015
Changes may prompt high-net worth individuals to reconsider their property investment plans