Investors tell loss-making legal fund to wind down
November 18th, 2015
Legal finance fund Juridica Investments is winding up its operations after a 60% slump in its share price this year. Legal finance fund Juridica Investments (JIL) has bowed to shareholder pressure and agreed to wind up its operations after a 60% slump in ...
The Common Reporting Standard: Automatic Information Exchange Goes Global
October 16th, 2015
Automatic exchange of information for tax law enforcement purposes started first in Europe with the EU Savings Tax Directive, went international with the US Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act, and, from 2017, will go global with the recently-agreed Common ...
Methods of Tax Avoidance: Doubts Grow Over Fight Against Big Business Tax Evasion
September 24th, 2015
Lawmakers in the European Union say they have doubts that the fight against “aggressive” tax saving plans by the likes of Amazon, Barclays, Coca Cola, Facebook and Google can be sustained because of a lack of political agreement. The ...
Alasdair Macleod
July 30th, 2015
Alasdair Macleod had a career in the City as a stockbroker and investment manager, followed by a period in offshore banking and fund administration in Guernsey. Articles
SafeCharge International Group Limited: Results of Annual General Meeting
May 19th, 2015
SafeCharge (AIM: SCH), the global provider of payments services, technologies and risk management solutions for online and mobile businesses, is pleased to announce the results of the Company’s Annual General Meeting of shareholders, which was held earlier today. All ...
Russian tax law change offers opportunities
April 7th, 2015
Significant changes to Russia’s tax code could lead to an increased use of corporate and trust entities based in the Channel Islands in the structuring of Russian corporate and private wealth arrangements. The changes, dubbed the ‘de-offshorisation law’, are ...
Contributing Authors
October 2nd, 2014
Dr Alan Waring Dr Alan Waring has 35 years’ experience in risk management. His several books include Managing Risk (1998), co-authored with Prof Ian Glendon, Practical Systems Thinking (1996) and Corporate Risk and Governance published in May 2013. He has presented numerous conference and ...
Ex-U.S. Envoy Khalilzad Money-Laundering Probe Leads to Austria
September 8th, 2014
A U.S. probe into alleged money laundering by Zalmay Khalilzad has led Austrian authorities to freeze a Vienna bank account linked to the former presidential envoy to Afghanistan. Khalilzad, who served as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, allegedly ...
SEC pursues brokerage firm and CEO
August 11th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a Bahamas-based brokerage firm and its president for enabling a fraud that was halted when the SEC charged the hedge fund manager at the center of the scheme. The SEC alleges ...
IA ANALYSIS: FATCA is stranger than fiction
July 22nd, 2014
FATCA was implemented worldwide at the beginning of this month, but the impact (and costs) are only now just beginning to filter through to the financial services community. Part of the US Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (HIRE), ...
