http://www.offshorebank.net Offshore Bank | Offshore Banking | Offshore Bank Account Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:34:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “Going offshore” is a good solution for companies that do a lot of international business, and for people who want to protect their assets. Offshore banking in combination with having an offshore company guarantees maximum privacy and maximum flexibility. What to do when you want that extra security for your ... http://www.offshorebank.net/2008/01/30/offshore-bank-how-to-go-offshore/ Andorra is not just another Offshore centre. In the first place, Andorrs is landlocked and in the second place, Andorra does not have an “offshore jurisdiction”. It does not have special tax regulations for banking or investment funds, it does not offer classical offshore products such as trusts. The reason ... http://www.offshorebank.net/2007/12/17/offshore-banking-tax-haven-andorra/ Bankers often speak to the imagination of us, the average Joes, and offshore bankers do so even more. What is the typical profile of an offshore banker? Well, an example of a famous offshore banker is the Dutchman John Deuss. John Deuss is a banker and oil trader who was born ... http://www.offshorebank.net/2007/12/04/portrait-of-an-offshore-banker/ Costa Rica, the Southern-most country in Central-America, has 4 million citizens. Costa Rica, besides having one of the world’s largest areas of protected rainforest, is developing as an offshore financial centre. Until 1995, Costa Rica’s banking industry was a state business, but since the banks have been privatized, slowly but surely ... http://www.offshorebank.net/2007/11/28/new-financial-centre-costa-rica/ The IMF, the world’s monitor of the financial industry, has recognized the need to assess Offshore Financial Centres (OFCs) more closely. The main reason is that, according to the IMF, OFCs make up a significant part of global financial flows and because they have ties with other financial centres they ... http://www.offshorebank.net/2007/11/19/imf-monitors-offshore-financial-centres/ Investing beyond the borders of your jurisdiction, which is also referred to as offshore investing, has quite some advantages. We will name a few here, together with some of the disadvantages of investing abroad. Offshore investing makes up more than half of the world's financial investments and is therefore quite ... http://www.offshorebank.net/2007/11/12/offshore-investing/ Monaco is still among the tax havens that are named “un-cooperative tax havens”. In 2002, Andorra, Liberia, Liechtenstein, the Marshall Islands, Monaco, Nauru and Vanuatu were on the list of un-cooperative tax havens. Most countries managed to get themselves off the list, but Monaco stayed on the list, together ... http://www.offshorebank.net/2007/11/01/monaco-still-on-black-list/ Professor Dr. Hans Geiger is Professor of Finance at the Swiss University of Zürich. He is head of the Swiss Banking Institute at this university. Prof. Dr. Geiger is a member of various renowned organizations in Europe that are all related to finance or banking. In the video below, Professor ... http://www.offshorebank.net/2007/10/30/swiss-banking-analysis/ Take back what we said in September. This week's nauseous lurch by UBS highlights the fact that, no matter how cosy they look, even the the big Swiss banks are not immune from globalisation. Credit Suisse are none too happy either, also reporting "adverse results" though nothing as as spectacular ... http://www.offshorebank.net/2007/10/03/no-immunity-for-switzerland/ The Bahamas is an island group just east of Florida. The Bahamas were a leading offshore financial centre until the late 1970s, when its popularity started to decline due to accusations of money laundering practices and allegations of unfair tax competition. The Bahamas are more popular among Europeans than among ... http://www.offshorebank.net/2007/10/01/the-bahamas-offshore-banking-centre/