OFC. A. WALKUP

UK government sets out bigger post-Brexit subsidies for farmers

...In a report based on interviews with 40 farmers, the OFC found that the sector was subsidising cheap food, and that farmers were routinely being paid below the cost of production....

January 4, 2024

Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands to open Singapore office to lure Asia’s wealthy

...While Singapore’s VCCs and Hong Kong’s OFCs offer new avenues, the Caymans bring a legacy of reliability,” said Lee....

September 15, 2023

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

The Big Read

Singapore and Hong Kong vie to be the Caymans of Asia

...“The government is committed to developing Hong Kong not only as a fund distribution hub, but a fund domicile hub. This vehicle [OFC] is part of that package. It’s a strategic objective,” says Wong....

March 20, 2023

North American prime property

‘People move to Harlem and stay in Harlem’

...“Finding a studio for $500,000 is a challenge in most other New York City neighbourhoods,” says its founder John Walkup. “That’s not the case in Harlem.”...

October 25, 2023

Due Diligence

The $17bn battle over Credit Suisse’s debt Premium

...“It’s not that we have a fixed idea yet of what might be coming under this umbrella,” said one fund manager who set up an OFC in January....

March 23, 2023

Financial services

Hedge funds eye new corporate structure in Singapore

...The structure shares many tax-efficient features of Luxembourg’s Sicav, the Segregated Portfolio Company (SPC) in the Caymans and Hong Kong’s Open-Ended Fund Company (OFC), said tax experts....

June 28, 2020

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

City Bulletin

City Bulletin: EY prepares partners for difficult conversations with clients Premium

...It shares many tax-efficient features of Luxembourg’s Sicav, the Segregated Portfolio Company (SPC) in the Caymans and Hong Kong’s Open-Ended Fund Company (OFC), said tax experts....

June 29, 2020

FT Magazine

Inside Antarctica: the continent whose fate will affect millions

...Jess Walkup, an ebullient 31-year-old with a PhD in evolutionary ecology, will lead the Rothera base this winter....

March 29, 2018

FT Magazine

Antarctica: a photographer’s diary

...Jess Walkup, who will lead the base over the coming winter, greets us and takes us over to the main building....

March 29, 2018

Driverless vehicles

Can a self-driving car work with a human at the wheel?

...“When we were developing Super Cruise we knew it was important to keep the driver engaged during operation,” says Barry Walkup, chief engineer of Cadillac’s Super Cruise system....

July 13, 2017

US politics & policy

Trump’s assets promise draws pithy response from ethics body

...Not very professional for a govt ofc but wouldn’t be 1st,” one lawyer remarked on Twitter. Others took the tweets at face value....

December 1, 2016

Sport

The contested findings of the Fifa report into World Cup bids

...A replacement for Mr Temarii could still have represented the OFC in the vote if Mr Temarii waived his right to appeal against his suspension....

November 13, 2014

FT AlphavilleLisa Pollack

Meet the credit derivative “end-users”

...OFC - not a NFI, and also meeting none of the other definitions above. Mainly mutual funds....

December 13, 2011

FT AlphavilleLisa Pollack

StanChart camps out at the securitisation BISTRO – Part 2

...dealers to IFGCs, SPVs and OFCs....

February 21, 2012

InterviewFT Magazine

The Inventory: Frank Oz

...In my twenties I lived in a walkup with cockroaches; I’ve done it before and I’d do it again. Do you believe in assisted suicide? It’s hard to know....

October 7, 2011

FT Live

Global Banking Summit

The world's top gathering of leaders in finance

European banks

Lending rises as money supply falls

...A broad measure of money supply known as M4 fell by £0.7bn in February when “other intermediate corporations” (OFCs) are stripped out....

March 29, 2011

FT AlphavilleNeil Hume

A week is a long time… for the UK economy

...Even on the Bank of England’s preferred monetary gauge – M4 excluding intermediate OFCs – the pace of monetary growth remains hugely disappointing and far removed from a level that would be considered anywhere...

February 1, 2011

FT AlphavilleTracy Alloway

The loss of central bank credibility, the coming inflation – by MOST

June 3, 2010

FT AlphavilleTracy Alloway

More QE money based on money supply

...M4 lending excluding intermediate OFCs rose by £0.9 billion in September, higher than the £7.9 billion fall in August. This is a bit of a mixed bag for BoE/QE watchers....

October 29, 2009

FT AlphavilleTracy Alloway

Penny for your thoughts, BofE

...M4 lending excluding intermediate OFCs fell by £9.8 billion in August, weaker than the £1.9 billion fall in July....

September 29, 2009

FT AlphavilleTracy Alloway

QE’s so money, baby

...M4 lending excluding intermediate OFC’s, however, looks rather weak at £0.2bn....

September 1, 2009

FT AlphavilleTracy Alloway

Money money money, ex-IOFC

...For the record, the Bank plans to start publishing a monthly version of M4 and M4 lending excluding intermediate OFCs from Sept. 1, 2009....

July 22, 2009

FT AlphavilleTracy Alloway

Money supply and the QE tea leaves

...In the first three months of the year, M4 excluding intermediate OFCs rose by 3.8 per cent, downwardly revised from the 3.9 per cent in an earlier report, the BoE said....

August 4, 2009

Global Economy

IMF set to end offshore ‘stigma’

...A desire to “eliminate the need to maintain a potentially discriminatory list of OFC jurisdictions” was one justification for its decision to merge its monitoring of OFCs and the financial sector, it said...

July 14, 2008

World

Battle to protect the past

...One difficulty is that individuals cannot easily buy a heritage building; banks rarely offer mortgages on tong buildings or traditional Chinese walkups....

June 29, 2008

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