United Kingdom: Offshore Financial Centres

Katten's August 2024 UK Financial Insights covers EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive deadlines, cybersecurity threats for financial firms, FCA consultations on UK wholesale market regulations, final rules on the UK Overseas Funds Regime, and navigating break clauses in commercial leases.

In 2021, at COP 26, the UK Government announced its intention that the UK would become the world's first net zero aligned financial centre.

Ahead of the UK-Africa Investment Summit on 20 January and as the UK seeks to boost economic links with Africa after Brexit, Directors John Félicité and Raju Jaddoo take a timely

Jersey Finance recently concluded a series of roadshow events in Kenya and South Africa, promoting Jersey's extensive wealth management expertise and the stability offered by an international ...

It is some time since I dedicated a column to Brexit but I am, it seems, firmly in the minority.

A corporate carve-out is the acquisition/disposal of a part only of an existing business and can be a sale of assets, shares or both.

Senior management will have to take a hands-on approach to compliance when the new UK offence of failing to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion comes into force, says Ogier's Head of Regulatory Services.

After global media organisations published the leaked Panama Papers from law firm Mossack Fonseca revealing how corporates and some of the world's wealthy and powerful used offshore companies to hide their assets . . .

Individual investors and trust beneficiaries should already have taken advice over rules forcing disclosure of the identities of individuals with "significant control or influence"...