Offshore jurisdictions should join forces to lobby larger nations and international organisations on matters affecting them, according to members of the offshore financial services industry. While there are obvious ways in which Jersey, Guernsey and the Cayman Islands are competitors,
Dino Fuschillo outlines the strategy and investment process that underpins the performance of Martin Currie’s European-focused fund.
Citigroup says its trustworthiness as a bank is intact following Thursday’s court victory over private equity group Terra Firma Capital Partners. In a statement issued after the bank and its head of UK investment banking, David Wormsley, were cleared by
Just three per cent of financial services professionals polled globally believe that the regulatory changes implemented since 2008 have done enough to prevent a future crash, according to a survey by Kinetic Partners. Furthermore, just 12 per cent of respondents believe
The UK asset management industry needs to considerably ramp up its plans for responding to the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive as only two per cent of the industry currently has a plan in place that is being implemented. According
It’s not all hostility to hedge funds in the so-called blue states that helped deliver the US presidency to Barack Obama on Tuesday night.
ICAP, an interdealer broker and provider of post trade risk and information services, has released its analysis of the potential impact of implementing a financial transactions tax (FTT). Eleven countries have provisionally agreed to introduce a tax on financial
Jersey Finance has welcomed the Council of Minister’s proposals to retain the jurisdiction’s personal taxation rate at 20 per cent. Setting out his budget proposals, Treasury and Resources Minister Senator Philip Ozouf said ministers wanted the States of Jersey Assembly
Gold mining specialist Harmony is the first South African company to dual list its ADRs on the NASDAQ National Market and the NYSE. The stock began trading on the N
David M Nunn has been fined USD600,000 for entering into fictitious sales, engaging in illegal non-competitive and fictitious trades in coffee futures contracts over a two-year period, and making false statements to representatives of ICE Futures US. Nunn is a
