Jersey, Standard Chartered and HSBC - hosts to alleged fraud
Monday, October 1st, 2007The Guardian has reported that: The Serious Fraud Office has begun a new investigation into British links with one of the biggest corruption inquiries in
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Why there's a credit crunch
Monday, October 1st, 2007The FT reports that: The global hedge fund market grew by about a fifth to almost $2,500 billion (£1,250 billion) in the first half of
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Jersey - taking hedge fund regulation to the bottom
Sunday, September 30th, 2007“The race to the bottom” is a well known phrase in offshore tax. It is the seemingly inevitable way in which tax havens are used
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There's none so blind as those that will not see
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Accountancy Age has reported that the Tories are confused by Alistair Darling’s call for a review of the off balance sheet finance of banks at
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What's happening in the financial centres?
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007Monitoring what is happening in Europe’s finance centres is a near full time occupation. I’ve found a blog that helps. It’s by a Frenchman called
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BBC Jersey - a note of rare appreciation
Monday, September 17th, 2007I have complained about BBC Jersey in the past, here and elsewhere. So, fairness where it is due: they not only quote me here, they
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Where is the liquidity crisis?
Friday, September 14th, 2007The UK’s banks are beginning to be hit by a liquidity crisis. They won’t lend to each other because they don’t know what debt the
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Senator Syvret - time to say sorry
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007In March this year I published a blog about Senator Stuart Syvret, then Minister of Health in Jersey. I readily admit that this was a
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Jersey - morally bankrupt
Sunday, September 9th, 2007We have to ask ourselves: are we, as a government, morally bankrupt when we are taxing pensioners on a loaf of bread? So said Alan
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