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BVI Receives 2014 Offshore Estate Planning Gong
September 9th, 2014
The British Virgin Islands has been awarded the 2014 Offshore Excellence Award in Estate Planning by publishers Acquisition International. Receiving the award on behalf of the territory, Executive Director of the BVI International Financial Center, Sylvia Moses, said the ...
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 ...
Bringing It Back Home
August 28th, 2014
An increasing number of American companies are making plans to shift their headquarters to Europe. These so-called “inversions” would reduce these companies’ total tax bill by allowing them to escape from the United States’ uniquely unfavorable corporate tax rules. ...
Australia 200 – Consolidates Under Six Year High Around 5620
August 26th, 2014
Australia 200 for Tuesday, August 26, 2014 The Australian 200 Index has finally been able to surge higher to a new six year high around 5650 late last week before easing off to finish out the week. It has ...
How Money is Made
August 20th, 2014
Last month, the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) announced the establishment of their own development bank, which would reduce their dependence on the Western-dominated, dollar-focused World Bank and International Monetary Fund. These economies will benefit ...
Stewarts to launch tax litigation team to capitalise on boom in tax disputes
August 20th, 2014
Stewarts Law will launch a tax litigation group in 10 weeks’ time to hone in on the swathe of tax-related cases hitting the courts. The new specialist group will join the litigation firm’s nine specialist areas, which include the ...
Multinationals Warn Against US Inversion Quick Fixes
August 12th, 2014
The current policy debate on so-called corporate inversions threatens to inadvertently impact all American subsidiaries of foreign multinationals and make the country less attractive for future foreign direct investment (FDI), according to a letter written by the Organization for ...
Big Banks’ ‘Living Wills’ Get Failing Grade
August 6th, 2014
Wall Street banks spent two years asking U.S. regulators what they should put in hypothetical bankruptcy plans to prove they aren’t “too big to fail.” The agencies broke their silence yesterday with a grade: Fail. The Federal Reserve and ...
Argentina to investigate holdouts’ investments
August 5th, 2014
Argentina’s markets watchdog on Monday launched an investigation into what it believes may have been unlawful speculation by holdout creditors whose litigation against the country for repayment of their defaulted bonds pushed it into a new default last week. ...
Record award for former Yukos investors after tribunal finds “political motivation” for Russia’s actions
July 31st, 2014
An arbitral tribunal sitting in The Hague has unanimously held that the Russian Federation breached its international obligations under the Energy Charter Treaty when it liquidated and part-nationalised the former Yukos Oil Company in 2007. The Permanent Court of ...
