Category: Offshore Banks
-
Banks Learn How to Profit From the Transaction Banking Gold Rush at Annual iGTB Oxford School
[box]Third iGTB Oxford School of Transaction Banking confirms the opportunity but highlights key pitfalls[/box] “Roll up for the transaction banking gold rush,” was the rallying cry as 60 senior transaction bankers from across the globe convened for the annual iGTB Oxford School of Transaction Banking, hosted by corporate banking technology specialist Intellect Global Transaction Banking…
-
UnionPay mobile payment transaction volume grows as Chinese tourists celebrating the Spring Festival all around the world
SHANGHAI, Feb. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Today is the fifth day of the Chinese Spring Festival holiday, and the Chinese New Year has become a global tourism peak season with more and more Chinese tourists celebrating the festival abroad. According to the data from China Tourism Academy, as many as 6.5 million Chinese people travel abroad this Spring…
-
Trade/Project Financier, Bachmann & Welser To Launch USD 2 billion Project Finance Fund
EDINBURGH, Scotland, February 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Global Trade/Project Financier, Bachmann & Welser will launch a USD 2 billion Project finance fund in March 2018 with funds that will be backed by several private and institutional investors. The launch will coincide with Bachmann & Welser’s Asian Headquarters opening in Hong Kong. The fund, which is to be called, B&W Global Project Finance Fund,…
-
New Study Shows Independent Operators Provide Majority of U.S. ATMs & Serve Under-Banked
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — As part of Congressional testimony offered during yesterday’s hearing before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, Chaired by Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO), The National ATM Council (NAC) submitted the findings of a new independent study on the state of the U.S. ATM marketplace, entitled Location Study of ATMs in…
-
MoneyGram and GCash Drive Financial Inclusion in the Philippines
New partnership strengthens MoneyGram’s digital business in the region MANILA, Philippines, Feb. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — MoneyGram (NASDAQ: MGI) and GCash, the mobile wallet and micropayment arm of Mynt, announced today a new partnership to drive financial inclusion in the Philippines. Millions of GCash users can now receive money from over 200 countries and territories on their mobile wallet and use the…
-
Itaú Private Bank Opens Bahamas Trading Desk
Itaú Private Bank, from a leading position in the Brazil domestic market, has launched a new Bahamas-based trading desk to help Brazilians invest offshore. In addition to investing US $25 million in technology, Itaú has strengthened the team of advisors in Zurich and Miami and now launches a new trading desk aimed at fostering offshore…
-
The World Bank’s incoherent approach to taxes
The World Bank should revise its Doing Business report to bring coherence to its work on taxes. The World Bank’s Doing Business report came under fire last week for its alleged political bias against Chile. Doing Business is a sort of international competitiveness ranking. It measures on an annual basis the ease of doing business…
-
White Dragon Society, IMF, GCR, Heritage Bonds and Bank Trading Programs
Over the past several years we have received requests from dozens of legitimate groups claiming to have imminent closings and requesting us to supply them with high level receiving bank accounts and trading programs. Not a single one has ever received any funds. • Chinese Bonds – The Beijing government has stopped redeeming these. They…
-
Commonwealth of Dominica Welcomes Newest Offshore Bank
ROSEAU, Dominica, Dec. 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — In late 2018, Digibank joins the ranks of Class-A licensed offshore banks of the Commonwealth of Dominica. Poised to ride the trend of globalized wealth, Digibank aims to incorporate technology to traditional offshore bank services to achieve 3 crucial comparative advantages, namely full digitalization, faster processing speed and lower transaction cost.…