International health insurer Allianz Worldwide Care has launched a medical escort service, to add a transportation option to its coverage of insured individuals who are away from their home countries and require medical evacuation.
Santander Private Banking in Jersey is introducing new, competitive fixed rates and other deposit account options, for use by corporate clients and professional intermediaries.
Old Mutual, the parent of Skandia International, is to sell its Nordic Skandia businesses to Skandia Liv for £2.1bn, to cut its debt.
Four men who created a tangled web of financial transactions across the globe in an attempt to launder $15.5m stolen 11 years ago from a German bank have been jailed.
An unlicensed adviser was today fined HK$20,000 and given a community service order of 80 hours, for advising on securities via the social networking website Facebook.
With Switzerland's banking secrecy laws under attack from cash-strapped G20 governments keen to track down hidden overseas assets, Singapore's wealth managers are positioned to benefit, writes Helen Burggraf
The Internal Revenue Service said that it plans within days to release new forms intended to enable Americans to begin complying with some of the new reporting requirements being brought in by the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act.
State Street Global Advisors has been reprimanded by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, for supplying inaccurate information in relation to the performance of an exchange traded fund.
Index provider MSCI has decided not to upgrade Qatar and the United Arab Emirates from frontier to emerging market status, following an extended review period.
Trusts with French interests are being reminded that from 2012 they will be required to make a report to the French tax authorities under new tax laws.
Outflows from both bond and equity funds eased significantly in October, compared with those experienced in a “summer of carnage”, according to latest data from Lipper FMI.
Prudentials Gerry Brown explains how a tax avoider recently won a case in the UKs Court of Appeal against HM Revenue & Customs, despite admitting participating in “artificial tax avoidance”.
