Tag: offshore banking
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Understanding Offshore Banking
Pros, Cons, and Legalities Offshore banking, the practice of keeping money in a bank located outside one’s home country, often conjures images of secrecy, financial complexity, and even scandal. However, this concept is more than a plot device in a thriller movie. Offshore banking is a legitimate financial strategy used by individuals and businesses worldwide.…
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Tax Deferred Foreign Retirement Account
Sure a USA person can set up an IRA LLC, or a USA person can set up and LLC Offshore, and a USA person can open an Offshore Trust. The fact is that the companies that sell these products are creating them for USA customers about the same record pace they were pre-FACTA. Brilliant Internet…
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RBC Wealth Management named Best Private Bank in the Channel Islands
RBC Wealth Management has continued its recent award success by being named the Best Private Bank in the Channel Islands at the 2012 World Finance Banking Awards. World Finance’s judging panel used a wide range of criteria to decide the recipients of the 2012 awards. These included assessing each firm’s performance, the variety and clarity…
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Fresh Approach to Private Offshore Banking
When you imagine private offshore banking it may involve a Swiss bank account or an ultra-secret Cayman private bank account nestled in beachy isolation. But to really achieve that safe haven of wealth that neither law courts nor governments can touch you may need to think outside the box. Today’s reality is that we are…
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Why Offshore Banking is Underutilised
There are many myths about international banking, and a stigma attached to the phrase ‘offshore banking’. Both can conjure stories of illicit financial activities on small islands and neutral, private banking institutions with renegade accounting tactics not condoned by reputable jurisdictions. These misconceptions sometimes arise out of context from extreme legal cases. Definition: A tax…
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Offshore Banking for Corporations
Usually banking goes hand in hand with offshore company formation. For legitimate tax minimisation purposes, it is customary to have a corporate bank account residing in a country different from the country of incorporation. This is commonly practised. For instance, a Singapore company is ideal for international business because company funds remitted outside of Singapore…
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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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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…