Offshore & IFCs

Lawyers from offshore law firm Walkers have been speaking with secondary school students in Dublin about careers in law as part of a national outreach programme 

The UK government has announced that foreign companies who have not registered their beneficial owners with Companies House by the 31 January deadline could now face severe sanctions, such as restrictions and financial penalties

Guernsey Finance has renamed its Guernsey Green Finance initiative to Sustainable Finance Guernsey. 

The rise of digital assets and cryptocurrencies has been an exciting new development in global finance, with the British Virgin Islands (BVI) emerging as a very popular jurisdiction for entities and individuals wishing to operate in the digital assets space

Guernsey accountancy firm Cleland & Co has promoted two of its staff to managers

International family office Stonehage Fleming has chosen fifteen women to honour their contributions at its inaugural ‘Stonehage Fleming XV: The Next Chapter of Wealth’ (SFXV)

The Spanish Ministry of Finance has named a new list of countries, territories and harmful tax regimes that would be considered as “non-cooperative jurisdictions” for tax purposes, in accordance with the reform introduced by the Anti-Tax Fraud Law in 2021

The average amount owed to UK taxpayers by HMRC has increased by 6.2 percent, according to tax specialists RIFT Tax Refunds

The Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering body MONEYVAL has encouraged Monaco to strengthen measures to combat money laundering (ML) and financing of terrorism (FT)

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