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Aaron In today’s world of investing and financial markets, HFT, or high-frequency trading, has become one of the most widely discussed buzzwords, due primarily to active debate concerning whether this automated trading system strengthens investors’ positions or destabilizes the marketplace as a whole. On a basic level, high-frequency trading can be defined as a system in … Read more
Gold represents many different things to many different people. For some, the world of commodities trading is simply one of several elements within a larger investment portfolio. To others, gold represents a reliable and secure vehicle through which future financial security, particularly during retirement years, can be gained. That being said, the price of gold … Read more
The whole thing to do with FATCA is starting to build a tidal wave of interest now that most people understand that 1 July is the drop dead date. [quote style=”boxed”]Would you like to guess as to what is treated as an exempt entity?[/quote] This is explicitly for pension funds as exempt beneficial owners and … Read more
New study puts a cost on “round-tripping,” a method investors use to avoid the tax collector. by Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office Tax evasion is widely assumed to be an eternal problem for governments — but how widespread is it? For the first time, a new study, co-authored by an MIT professor, has put … Read more
The foreign exchange market, commonly known as “forex,” is the global market for the trading of currencies. It is the largest and most liquid market in the world, trading at a huge volume of $5.3 trillion a day, which is around $220 billion every hour. While the current, modern Forex market is vast and incredibly … Read more
Gold Backed Coin (GBC) is the world’s first virtual currency fully backed by gold – and it could change the way we think about virtual money. A relatively short period of time ago, the term cryptocurrency did not mean anything to most people. But this has changed since a virtual something named Bitcoin has entered … Read more
This week it was announced that Hong Kong has agreed to hand over financial details of Americans working in the city, to US tax authorities under Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, US can ask for data if certain conditions are met. The Financial Services and Treasury Bureau said the tax-information exchange agreement allowed the US … Read more
The two biggest problems to most offshore structures is Reporting & Liquidity. Their reporting is complicated and expensive and their liquidity is none! Some complicated structures require high intensity tax filings, often times these structures were created by the person you pay to do your tax filing. Imagine buying an offshore structure, from the person … Read more
Many professionals working in the offshore financial services industry are asking the question; when will the tax inquisition end? Most of them understand that as long as there’s more than one currency in the world, and while over two thirds of the collective surplus cash supply is parked in so called tax havens, there will … Read more