European trade body member Graham Reid has called for rate of commission to be restricted rather than banned outright in a letter to Michel Barnier, European commissioner for internal markets and service.
Lord Lexden has asked the UK government to allow expats to continue to have the right to vote in their home country beyond the current 15 years after leaving the UK, according to a report in The Telegraph.
Kinetic Partners, the professional services company to the asset management investment banking and broking industry, has appointed one of its founders Julian Korek as chief executive to lead an expanded management team.
Hong Kong has lost its position as the world’s most expensive location to rent office space in favour of London’s West End, according to DTZ’s latest annual Global Occupancy Cost survey.
Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man have got around to signing double taxation agreements with each other, having each already made such arrangements with many other countries.
BW Oakfield, the Isle of Man-based trust and corporate service provider, has established an ‘offshore special interest group’ to enable parent company Kreston International’s worldwide fiduciary firms to network more effectively.
Jersey’s economic development minister Alan Maclean has approved a grant of over £4m to Jersey Finance the organisation's largest ever lump sum from the States government.
Acordias, the wealth platform for international IFAs and wealth managers, has raised additional funding to bring its 2.0 platform to market in the first quarter of this year.
Gibraltar based European Financial Planning Group has named Platform One International as its investment platform.
The Isle of Man Government has decided to retain the zero-10 tax status for the international life companies as part of its taxation strategy for the next four years.
A highly paid pool of expats, a hugely wealthy elite and a native population with money to spare all combine to make Saudi Arabia a tremendous prospect for financial advisers, but actually breaking into the market takes some doing.
Pictet Asset Management has added to its Luxembourg Sicav range of emerging market bond funds with the official launch of the Pictet Emerging Corporate Bonds fund.
