The British Virgin Islands has taken steps to enhance its product offering in the investment business sector by creating two new fund products. The “incubator fund” and the “approved fund” are two new lightly regulated fund products which are primarily aimed at start-up emerging managers and those managing funds for friends and family/non-institutional offerings. The […]
TLA Wealth and Advisory Services joins IR as the exclusive Tax (Private Client) & Offshore Services Member in South Africa. International Referral, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Mari Loubser of TLA Wealth and Advisory Services. Mari has joined IR as our exclusive Tax (Private Client) & Offshore Services […]
International Referral, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Tenk (FH) Loubser of TLA Wealth and Advisory Services. Tenk has joined IR as our exclusive Tax (Private Client) & Offshore Services member in South Africa Tenk (FH) Loubser (Tenk Sr.) is the founder and managing director of TLA Wealth and […]
China’s Ministry of Finance priced its second offshore renminbi bond of the year on Thursday, raising Rmb12bn (US$1.96bn) in four tranches. Institutional investors bought Rmb9bn of notes in three tranches. A Rmb4bn three-year piece was priced to yield 2.74%, a Rmb3bn five-year tranche at 3%, and a Rmb2bn 10-year at 3.38%. The remaining Rmb3bn two-year […]
In this issue: China – 1. Revised “Provisions on the Recognition and Protection of Well-Known TM” promulgated by SAIC 2. CTMO’s explanation on division of partially rejected TM applications, pursuant to Art. 22 of the Implementing Regulations of the New TM Law 3. Design patents for graphical user interface designs granted inChina […]
We are pleased to inform you that our Director Ms. Wubin Yan and Trademark Attorney Ms. Chunchun Zhao will be attending the 2014 China Trademark Festival and Annual Meeting to be held in Suzhou from November 7 to November 10, 2014. Should any colleagues from your firm participate this event, we would be very happy to […]
Oct 24 (Reuters) – Hong Kong shares finished lower on Friday, dragged down by weak Chinese property data and corporate results from major companies. The Hang Seng Index unofficially closed down 0.1 percent at 23,302.20 points. The China Enterprises Index of the leading offshore Chinese listings in Hong Kong fell 0.5 percent. For the week, […]
Carlyle K Rogers of CarlyleRogers, Anguilla will be in Miami from 21st to the 26th October attending The Private Wealth Latin America & The Caribbean Forum. If you are attending and would like to meet with Carlyle please contact him direct [email protected] or Lorna [email protected]
International Referral, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Carlyle K Rogers of CarlyleRogers. Carlyle has joined IR as our exclusive Offshore Services Member in Anguilla. Carlyle K Rogers is a barrister by profession having studied law in London at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, where he obtained an LLB […]
Beijing is in talks with Singapore and Britain to let mainland investors buy equities in these markets, a move seen as the next stage of China’s opening up of the capital account and globalising the yuan as the Shanghai-Hong Kong stock connect scheme readies to start. The initiative, if approved, will put Hong Kong in […]
An inability to open bank accounts is the latest threat to Hong Kong’s business-friendly reputation. “It is getting extremely difficult to open bank accounts for any sort of trust or company structure. Banks have gone from a position where unless there is good reason to refuse the account, we will accept it, to unless there […]
The uncomfortable truth is that the entire banking system in the developed West is insolvent. This is not some wild, attention seeking headline. Rather, it is a carefully researched assertion based on fact. Let’s briefly examine the evidence in the United States, the world’s largest and most important banking system : 1. Some of the […]