Tax & Regulation
Best Practice | 16 May 18
Swiss to exchange information with HK and Singapore in 2019
Switzerland will start automatically exchanging financial account information with Singapore and Hong Kong from Autumn 2019 and with other financial centres from 2020.
Best Practice | 14 May 18
Five ways international pension transfers are changing
Pension transfers are “good business for good advisers”, according to Old Mutual Wealth, which has produced a five step best practice guide for international advisers.
UK compensation scheme declares 8 firms in default
A raft of UK financial advice firms were declared in default by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) during April, meaning consumers could get back money they have lost.
Isle of Man ready to fight UK Govt over public register
The Isle of Man was ready to “vigorously challenge” the UK Government if it imposed a public register of beneficial owners on the crown dependency, its chief minister Howard Quayle has revealed.
Bahrain rejects expat remittance tax
Bahrain’s government has voted against a proposal to tax expat remittances, after it was deemed unconstitutional by the jurisdiction’s financial and economic affairs committee.