When the Economist ran a special feature on tax havens earlier this year they said: Today’s successful tax havens thrive not because of crockery, but
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Liars
The Guardian reports today that: British investigators were ordered by the attorney-general Lord Goldsmith to conceal from international anti-bribery watchdogs the existence of payments totalling
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What have Indonesia and Guernsey got in common?
According to Yahoo: Indonesia plans to reopen a corruption investigation into the youngest son of former dictator Suharto, the attorney general’s office said Monday. Tommy
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EC needs to move with caution
Finextra has reported that: The European Commission (EC) has launched a consultation on ways of making it easier for customers to switch bank accounts between
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Dennis Howlett – on the nail
Dennis Howlett has commented on the same Sunday Times price that I referred to yesterday (which I suspect he found here). He’s much more robust
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Rotten
The Telegraph reports this morning that: Despite the Revenue’s crackdown, investing your money overseas can still pay. It then goes on to say that the
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The G8 Summit
Behind the scenes my colleagues and I have been working hard on the G8 summit which is held next week. This article in The Tablet
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Transparency in a Jersey trust? You’ve got to be kidding
When Jersey is boasting (and it does, often) it says one of the things its financial services sector does that is of benefit is run
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Pay Pal goes to Luxembourg for all the wrong reasons
Pay Pal has been mailing all its customers to tell them: PayPal was granted a bank license with the Luxembourg bank authority. Under this license,
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