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Jersey remains top offshore centre and climbs into top ten centres globally for wealth management in latest GFCI
Jersey has climbed two places, retained its position as the highest rated offshore international finance centre and enhanced its global reputation, according to the latest Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) released on Monday 26th September 2011. Overall, Jersey is placed 21st in the competitive rankings, which are published every six months, ahead of Guernsey in…
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Top 10 Offshore Banks
No Such List of Offshore Banks Exists – There is no recognized list of the top offshore banks. What is the criteria one would use for such a list is a good question? Examples of rating criteria would be age, total assets, strength of loan portfolio, management, track record, currency, country of location and licensure,…
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Hong Kong Tops Economic Freedom Index
Hong Kong has once again topped the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom Index, which measures the degree to which the policies and institutions of countries are supportive of economic freedom. According to the report, Hong Kong scored highly across all of the five categories which are used to calculate index scores, including size of government, legal…
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Diversify Your Capital to more than One Offshore Jurisdiction
In these unclear times you should consider a few things before moving your capital to just one offshore location. Institutional Diversification: Many savvy investors have offshore accounts in more than one location. Just as you wouldn’t want to have all of you money in one bank, even if you think it is stable (Lehman Brothers)…
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Income and Tax Issues for the Expat Employee or Business Owner
Before August 2009, some expatriates used bank accounts in countries that had banking secrecy laws, the most well-known was Switzerland. However, at the end of August of that year, Switzerland signed an information release agreement that crumbled one of the stoutest legs of international banking sovereignty principles upon which many expats relied. Since that benchmark…
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Offshore Banking by Mobile Phone
BCN International Bank (Cayman) Ltd leads the Offshore Banking industry with strategic move to iPhone Setting new standards in enterprise mobility, BCN International Bank today confirmed that it has adopted the iPhone as its Smartphone of choice, one of the first and biggest corporate entities in the offshore banking industry to do so on such…
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Forex Brokerage: EU or Offshore
Every entrepreneur looking to start up a forex brokerage should first decide the jurisdiction in which the headquarters of the business will be based before proceeding with other issues. This involves a lot of prepatory work and is one of the crucial decisions that a forex startup needs to take, since it also has a…
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