06/12/2014
Jersey to introduce attractive new measures to its company offering
Jersey is introducing further innovations to its Companies Law, making the jurisdiction even more attractive for those who use Jersey companies for investment structuring, asset holding and a wide variety of other purposes.
06/12/2014
UBS shares fell on Thursday following a research report which said the Swiss bank could have to pay $8 billion in fines and settlements relating to alleged collusion and price-manipulation in the global currency market.
06/11/2014
The initiative, first unveiled at the G8 summit last year, forms part of global efforts to crack down on tax evasion, and the UK government was vocal about stopping its citizens from using shadowy ‘shell companies’ for money laundering.
06/11/2014
Despite international efforts to clamp down on offshore tax havens, small offshore havens for tax dodging and money laundering are becoming even busier.
06/11/2014
The principles of RDR are not being taken seriously enough by the FCA
06/11/2014
French 'suspect Geneva bank in giant tax fraud'
Falciani, a former IT worker at the bank in Geneva, released data to the French government in 2009 on 130,000 wealthy clients at HSBC alleged to have evaded taxes.
06/11/2014
Mishcon's managing partner Kevin Gold said: 'Years of experience advising clients on their business and personal matters has helped us understand that families really are the most complex organisations in the world.
06/11/2014
Carey Olsen is the number-one offshore legal adviser to London Stock Market clients
06/11/2014
Penny Lovell, Head of Private Client Services at Close Brothers Asset Management, comments on ONS marriage statistics:
06/11/2014
Industry officials have hailed Switzerland's attempts to speed up the process of returning assets plundered by corrupt leaders to their original states of origin as pioneering.
06/10/2014
Failing to respond in any way is likely to mean the bank will close your account
06/10/2014
India crackdown on rich with Swiss accounts
Within 24 hours of his May 26 inauguration, Modi created an investigative team of former judges and current regulators
06/10/2014
Austria lacks an inheritance tax, and wealth brackets are not scaled
06/10/2014
Appleby partner joins expert panel in New York
When a fund becomes illiquid it can find that its assets cannot be sold at all
06/10/2014
Arguments against international finance centres are ‘flawed’, new study finds
Moving Money concludes that the reduction of trading barriers is helping both developed and developing countries
06/09/2014
Sebi may probe Credit Suisse over insider trade in L&T Finance
The market regulator is likely to probe Credit Suisse to determine whether price sensitive information about the share deal was leaked by the investment bank.
06/09/2014
Ed's secret triple tax whammy: Leaked Labour plans for multi-billion-pound package of 'property wealth taxes'
Secret Labour documents plan to ramp up rates on farmers and the South
06/09/2014
FATCA was designed to catch US taxpayers with offshore accounts
06/09/2014
One of the issues facing foreign banks is whether they will need to sell investments in covered funds, such as private equity or hedge funds
06/09/2014
The corresponding bank slips list the recipient as a company by the name of 'G. Marín-Messi