Retirement | 20 Sep 13

British expats are embracing social media and digital apps as a means of sorting out their finances, with 75% using these platforms for practical purposes such as currency conversions and 38% making active use of banking apps, a new survey reveals.

Industry | 20 Sep 13

The World Bank is emerging as a major international regulator in the fields of fraud and corruption and has blacklisted 250 companies in the first seven months of 2013 alone – with Canadian entities emerging as the worst offenders, according to a new report.

Industry | 19 Sep 13

Key international life company and funds industry executives speaking at today’s International Adviser Fund Links Forum in London said they saw transparency in the area of financial goods and services around the world as inevitable.

Products | 19 Sep 13

Skandia International said the percentage of its offshore portfolio bonds that are being placed inside a trust each year has more than quintupled since 2006, which it attributes to better education, better choice and better use of product packaging.

Tax & Regulation | 19 Sep 13

EEA Fund Management has contacted shareholders in its suspended EEA Life Settlements Fund asking them to vote on a restructuring proposal which could see the ‘death bonds’ fund unsuspended in six weeks’ time.