Category: Offshore Banks

  • Passive Foreign Investment Company (PFIC) Problems

    For U.S. persons it is absolutely correct that you should engage in diversification of investments and assets overseas. However, the difficulty with much of the information received from a blog or Google search, no matter how attractive it might seem, is completely out of date. All the points sound great if you say them quickly.…

  • Investors Offshore Bait and Switch

    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…

  • Euro Pacific Bank a Model for Offshore Banking

    Euro Pacific Bank is headquartered in St. Vincent and the Grenadines where it is licensed and regulated by the I.F.S.A as a Class A International Bank. With the strictest privacy available, Euro Pacific Bank does not engage in speculation, lending or trading with client funds and all deposits are held with a 100% reserve requirement.…

  • How FATCA has Affected Offshore Investment

    Even though the FATCA legislation didn’t truly begin until January 1, 2013 (at least on paper), after only three months it has already had a widespread ripple effect across international banking and offshore investment. Anticipating the additional costs of complying with the extraterritorial United States legislation, many foreign banking and investment entities had already taken…

  • Offshore Banking Intermediaries

    Private investors and organizations have safely and routinely used offshore banking for years. Truth to tell, there isn’t much difference in the service and benefits between the bank down the street or one in Belize. The banks offering offshore accounts to foreigners are well established and offer online banking options, credit or debit cards and…