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...The house was owned via a Guernsey trust set up by the Royal Bank of Canada’s Channel Islands trust arm, Quendon said in court filings. RBC and Linklaters declined to comment....
...Lloyds Bank International provides consumer and private banking services and financial advice for Channel Island residents and expatriates....
...HMRC has scaled back estimates of how much revenue it can collect from the Crown Dependencies: the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man....
...bank....
...SG Hambros has £8.9bn of assets and offices in Edinburgh, Leeds, Cambridge, Newbury and London....
...Like Guernsey, the second largest of the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, it is a self-governing dependency of the British Crown....
...Villas for two from SG$600 (£434) per night. cempedak.com Also accessible from Singapore is Bawah Private Island, a group of six hitherto uninhabited jungle-clad islets in the Anambas archipelago....
...On the Channel Islands, in particular Guernsey and Herm, they have truly gone native....
...A similar disclosure facility for assets held in the Crown Dependencies — including the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey — has collected barely 5 per cent of forecast revenues....
...Offshore banking took off in the 1960s, when Kleinwort Benson — followed by Rea Brothers, NM Rothschilds and SG Hambro — set up operations to serve their international clients....
...And what about accounts held in the Channel Islands?...
...The tiny Channel Island of Alderney is launching an audacious bid to become the first jurisdiction to mint physical Bitcoins, amid a global race to capitalise on the booming virtual currency....
...In 2013, HMRC signed deals with all Crown Dependencies (the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man) and Overseas Territories (including the Cayman Islands and Gibraltar) to exchange information automatically...
...NT Advisors put together a series of loans and share transactions involving SG Hambros Bank in the Channel Islands....
...These include Swedish bank Handelsbanken’s acquisition of Heartwood, Brooks Macdonald’s purchase of Spearpoint, the Channel Islands-based fund manager, and Standard Life Wealth’s acquisition of Newton’s...
...Guernsey has long harboured aspirations to diversify the economy beyond finance, but is limited by constraints on land and population....
...An issue of a quite different kind is faced by tiny Alderney, a Channel Island around 70 miles off south-west England....
...Terra Firma Capital Partners is 100 per cent owned by London 58 Limited, a Cayman Islands-registered company that is controlled by Mr Hands....
...This launch was delayed, but FTfm understands Akarui will float, with the dual share class structure intact, on the Channel Islands Stock Exchange in August....
...The largest centres of boastfully light regulation and light taxes for non-residents were London, Luxembourg, Dublin, the Channel Islands, Gibraltar, Monaco and many other locations in the European back...
...“Particularly if the government increased the safety net to £100,000, the limited tax benefits of offshore accounts would be more than offset by the greater security of being onshore,” he argues....
...Collins Stewart CI, the portfolio management, stockbroking and funds business based in the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, has hired Martin Bralsford as chairman....
...Christine Ross, of SG Hambros, the private bank, said she was not surprised that the tax amount raised had been less than expected as most of her clients had opted to allow their European banks to exchange...
...The proceeds raised from this loan, believed to be for about €650,000 – raised from SG Hambros in September 2000 – were used by Mr Mills to invest in Centurion, a Guernsey-based hedged equity fund....
...Guernsey investment companies, which tend to have dual listings in London and the Channel Islands, have been dubbed Reit-petites because they too have high yields and distribute most of their income to investors...
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