hawksford continues takeover strategy
Hawksford, a Jersey-based trust company, has acquired another Jersey-based trust and corporate services provider, Key Trust. The move follows recent takeovers in Jersey, the Middle East and Switzerland.
Hawksford, a Jersey-based trust company, has acquired another Jersey-based trust and corporate services provider, Key Trust. The move follows recent takeovers in Jersey, the Middle East and Switzerland.
Cantor Fitzgerald, the New York-based stock brokerage, has struck a deal to acquire what it said were “certain assets and businesses of Seymour Pierce Ltd”, the 130-year-old London stockbroker/investment bank.
New York-based Cantor Fitzgerald is today said to be poised to acquire Seymour Pierce, the 130-year-old London stockbroker that has been reported to be in need of new funding.
The board of 130-year-old London stockbroker Seymour Pierce is reported to be in urgent talks over its future, after it emerged last week that it was in trouble.
The heads of the UK's big four accountancy firm tax teams have been grilled by parliament’s influential Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the use of tax avoidance.
A social networking group set up five years ago on LinkedIn to enable expat Brits around the world to share their experiences and make contacts has been so overwhelmed by offshore financial advisers that its moderators have been forced to create a financial services “sub-group”.
Two-thirds of British expats who return to live and work in the UK earn less than they did overseas, but the vast majority say they managed to acquire more personal wealth while they were abroad than their counterparts back home did, research conducted by deVere UK advisers has revealed.
A first of its kind tax agreement signed between the governments of the UK and Switzerland in August 2011 has brought in more than £340m since it came into force on 1 January this year, according to HM Revenue & Customs.
Banque Havilland, the Luxembourgheadquartered independent private bank, today launched a branch in London following approval from the UK’s Financial Services Authority.
Almost one third of UK advisers will become restricted in the next three years as the term becomes less stigmatised, with significant migration set to start in 2013.
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.
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.