Tag: Financial Privacy

Preserving the confidential nature of trusts

George Hodgson

I welcomed David Cameron’s recent letter to the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rumpoy, rejecting calls to include trusts in the public registries of beneficial owners that the UK is proposing for companies. In the letter the Prime Minister noted the need to ‘recognise the important differences between companies and trusts’ in this… Read More Preserving the confidential nature of trusts

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Is financial privacy coming to an end?

In recent years, we have seen almost daily developments chipping away at long-established boundaries of financial privacy. Before the global recession gave this process real impetus, who would have thought that offshore financial centres would sign automatic exchange of information agreements? The UK’s proposed public registry of company beneficial ownership may prove to be a… Read More Is financial privacy coming to an end?

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