Richest Russians Repatriate Assets After Putin Turns Tax Screw
January 20th, 2015
President Vladimir Putin is pushing harder on Russia’s richest citizens to repatriate offshore assets amid a slump in the ruble and the imposition of sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union. Under new tax rules signed into law ...
Commission To Probe All EU Advance Tax Rulings
January 19th, 2015
The European Commission has announced that its ongoing inquiry into advance tax rulings will be expanded to cover all European Union member states. The Commission said on December 17 that it will ask member states to confirm whether they ...
CySec requests further information from CIFs after the recent move on Swiss Franc
January 19th, 2015
The recent move on the Swiss Franc has urgent CySec to ask information from the investment firms under its supervision, on the impact of the move on their business. With a circular, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) ...
IronFX Global is granted permission from CONSOB, to establish a branch in Italy.
January 12th, 2015
On January 8 2015, Cyprus – IronFX Global, the Global Leader in Online Trading, announced that it has been granted authorization from CONSOB, the Italian regulator (Commissione Nazionale per la Societá e la Borsa), for the establishment of a new ...
Hong Kong Continues To Attract Record FDI
January 9th, 2015
Invest Hong Kong, the territory’s inward investment agency, has announced that it assisted a record number of businesses to establish operations in 2014. InvestHK’s Director-General of Investment Promotion, Simon Galpin, said: “2014 was another record year for InvestHK in ...
George Papanicolaou
January 7th, 2015
George Papanicolaou holds a BSc in Electronic Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (USA), an MBA with specialization in Finance from Leicester University (UK) and a Postgraduate Certificate in the Mechanics of Risk Management from Middlesex University ...
Decline and Fall of the Demagogues
December 19th, 2014
This article could have been entitled ‘The Bonfire of the Vanities’ (with apologies to the book’s author Tom Wolfe) as it too is all about ruthless ambition, political sleaze and rampant greed. However, as vanity in others is regarded ...
All EU member states told to release tax ruling information
December 18th, 2014
All EU member states have now been drawn into the European Commission’s investigation into the use of tax rulings to offer preferential tax treatment to multinationals The Commission has extended the scope of its enquiry into tax rulings practice ...
CySec: acquisition of Administrative Services Providers (ASP) licence
December 11th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that the following firm has successfully obtained the CySec licence to operate as Administrative Services Provider (ASP): Trustmondo Services Limited The company is now authorised ...
Corruption Perceptions Index 2014: RESULTS
December 4th, 2014
Poorly equipped schools, counterfeit medicine and elections decided by money are just some of the consequences of public sector corruption. Bribes and backroom deals don’t just steal resources from the most vulnerable – they undermine justice and economic development, ...
