Not exact matches
And so it fell to the
Financial Review to run a hastily cobbled together story detailing Mizzi and Schembri's
offshore holdings — the Australian interest was mainly the New Zealand trusts.
The broker
holds a license by the International
Financial Services Commission (IFSC) in Belize, which is known as an
offshore destination for forex and binary options brokers.
Any savings
held offshore, ie, particular types of savings accounts, not any money
held in a non-UK bank, are usually regulated by the local
financial authority, rather than the FCA.
Fibo Gorup is an
offshore forex broker with licenses from the
offshore Financial Services Commission (FSC BVI) and CySEC, as FIBO Group
Holdings Ltd..
The CRS, introduced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as part of an effort to address
offshore tax evasion, requires
financial institutions to report to their government certain information about
financial accounts
held by non-residents.
Advised on bringing claims in excess of US$ 1 billion against an oligarch's former business associate and successfully obtaining an injunction against his former
financial advisers, freezing sums
held in banks in the former CIS and
offshore.
We are probably talking about billions of pounds sterling
held within
financial structures at well known
offshore centres.
The major implications for banks targeted by HMRC will be the administrative burden of producing the information requested; the risk of breaching confidentiality laws in the countries where the
offshore accounts are
held — for example under Swiss and Cayman Islands law there are criminal sanctions for breaching client confidentiality — and other conflict of laws issues; and the risk of
Financial Services Authority investigations if it seems that the bank had encouraged the use of
offshore accounts in a misleading way, eg by advertising them as tax - free, or by suggesting that HMRC would never know about the income earned on sums in the accounts.
Your money will be
held in Jersey - one of the leading
offshore financial centres in the world.