Category: Asset Protection

  • Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Software Provider draglet Integrates 4Stop’s KYC and Anti-Fraud Technology

    COLOGNE, Germany, April 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — 4Stop (“FourStop GmbH”) a leading KYC and anti-fraud technology provider, announces that it has completed the integration of its proprietary KYC and risk management technology with draglet and is now live and operational. draglet has been deeply involved in the developments of Blockchain technology since the conception of Bitcoin and Ethereum technology.…

  • DarcMatter’s FinTech Platform Evolves to the Blockchain

    NEW YORK, April 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — DarcMatter’s company vision is to revolutionize the financial services industry by creating credible, compliant, and cutting edge financial technology to redefine traditional investment services. With the release of DarcMatter Coin (DMC), DarcMatter’s platform will benefit from increased transparency and efficiency through the integration of blockchain. Blockchain, both in the context…

  • Simple Math of Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation (NQDC)

    A nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plan is an elective or non-elective plan, agreement, method, or arrangement between an employer and an employee (or service recipient and service provider) to pay the employee or independent contractor compensation in the future. An overseas retirement plan can provide a legal and tax compliant NQDC personal investment structure, that…

  • China Offshore Investment and Banking Secrecy

    [box size=”large”]Things have changed that make citizens of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and all “high net worth individuals” (HNWI) a target now.[/box] Hiding assets PRC style (off the grid) and pretending someone else called ”Aunty”, a business, trust or nominee account owns them puts you at criminal risk needlessly. ORSO402(b) legal non-disclosure programming…

  • Financial Institutions AML & KYC

    Financial institutions fear to be wittingly or unwittingly implicated when they are used to settle, facilitate, or finance international trade transactions (e.g., through processing wire transfers, providing trade finance, and issuing letters of credit and guarantees). Implication is criminal prosecution for money laundering. Financial Action Task Force (FATF) rules extends to everybody and leads to…

  • BitGo Enters Into Agreement To Acquire Kingdom Trust

    BitGo’s Combined Offering with Kingdom Trust Provides the First Complete and Independent Qualified Custodial Offering for Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, and More PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BitGo, the leader in digital currency security solutions for institutional investors, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Kingdom Trust Company, a South Dakota-chartered, fully regulated trust…

  • Asset Protection for Cryptocurrency Offshore

    Structure Cryptocurrency Offshore – The Only Tax Rules Compliant and Double Tax Agreements Non-Reporting and Excluded Account The pension regime is very important internationally and one thing the OECD organization has done amazingly well is Double Tax Agreements. They have come out with an amendment to the OECD model double tax agreement that introduces a…

  • Offshore Tax Planning for Project Financing

    [box size=”large” style=”rounded”]Historic structures: transfer pricing, diverted profit tax, carried interest no longer function for offshore tax planning.[/box] [box type=”alert” size=”large” style=”rounded”]Investment vehicles require a look at what the future is to be.[/box] [box type=”info” style=”rounded”]Governments and governance look through everything. Everything is considered a tax avoidance scheme except that which is formally recognized and…

  • 2018 Tax Solution for Offshore Private Equity

    [box size=”large” style=”rounded” border=”full”]Offshore Private Equity is now caught by the carried interest definition; which means they could pay tax on money not yet received.[/box] [box type=”alert”]Also new for 2018 tax is Captive Insurance is added to overseas passive income rules.[/box] [box type=”tick”]Our structure, the Clean Nominee Bank Account, makes overseas passive income rules irrelevant.[/box]…