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Macau Gaming Industry

2009-10-14T15:34:41Z

Macau was both the first and last European colony in China. Gambling in Macau was legalized in 1850, under Portuguese rule, and since that time it has been known as the "Monte Carlo of the Orient."...

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Status of Uruguay Bank Secrecy Delicately Balanced

2009-09-21T20:35:54Z

Uruguay bank secrecy hangs delicately poised after conflicting statements of intent from rival candidates ahead of October presidential elections.Just a week after Frente Amplio candidate Jose Mujica...

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Swiss Banker Wegelin Weighs-in

2009-09-10T13:48:01Z

Wegelin & Company have been Private Bankers since 1741. Recently they provided some insightful commentary about the agreement between the USA and Switzerland related to the 4,450 UBS clients....

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Swiss Private Banks Accept End Of Bank Secrecy For Tax Evasion

2009-09-08T18:45:04Z

Swiss private bankers will in future insist that their clients are tax compliant, if remarks made by banking heads at a private banking conference in Zurich are anything to go by.According to some...

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UBS Strike Deal With US To Hand Over Biggest Accounts

2009-08-05T14:56:39Z

A preliminary agreement has been reached in the tax evasion dispute between Swiss Bank UBS and US authorities.UBS has agreed "in principle" to hand over records of 5'000 of the biggest accounts that...

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UBS Record of meetings with Swiss Bankers Could Indictate Large Numbers of Wealthy Americans with Offshore Accounts

2009-07-27T19:50:24Z

According to Swiss newspaper reports, U.S. authorities are seeking records of American UBS clients visited by Swiss bankers from 2001-2007.The US is seeking around 52,000 US offshore account holders...

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US Gaming Regulation. Fear It.

2009-05-20T22:47:50Z

While all the hype about pending US regulation and acceptance of online poker has the industry excited, there is a negative side that nobody is talking about. At a recent affiliate conference in...

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Switzerland Is Favourite Financial Centre For Mobile Rich

2009-05-15T18:48:25Z

Switzerland beats New York London and Singapore in a new ranking by Scorpio Partnership for the financial center that best caters for the world's rich."To the mobile wealthy, Switzerland is very...

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OECD Blacklist - A View From Tax Haven Uruguay

2009-05-07T13:08:37Z

We are by now used to hearing rhetoric about "pledges" to end bank secrecy and an end to tax havens, as if forcing another country to change its legal code were a natural course of action.But what do...

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Obama Seeks To End Corporate Offshore Tax Avoidance

2009-05-05T13:42:39Z

The Obama administration is unveiling a new set of measures aimed at ending the use of tax havens and offshore banking centers by US corporations for tax avoidance purposes. It is expected that not...

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Rich List of Britain

2009-04-28T15:44:39Z

The Sunday Times published this years list of the 100 wealthiest people working or living in Britain and i-Gaming executives featured heavily in the list with four PartyGaming executives among the...

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Stanford: "I'm Not A Damn Swindler"

2009-04-21T17:57:36Z

Allen Stanford stands accused of running an $8bn ponzi scheme involving fraudulent certificates of deposit, but the financier came out with all guns blazing in a recent interview at the office of his...

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US Tax Haven Hypocrisy Must End

2009-04-15T20:54:28Z

How offshore "tax havens" don't include US tax dependencies like the US Virgin Islands. The past few months have seen attacks against "offshore tax havens" which undermine collection of US taxes and...

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Credit Suisse Gives US Offshore Banking Clients Ultimatum

2009-04-14T13:09:38Z

Credit Suisse is taking further measures to protect itself, by ordering thousands of its American offshore banking clients to leave or face declaring their account details to the IRS. The Swiss...

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G20 Summit and Offshore Banking - The Best April Fool's Joke EVER!

2009-04-01T19:31:17Z

As shops and banks are boarded up across the city of London in anticipation of some healthy rioting over the next few days, Gordon Brown is carefully guarding his own April fool's jest among a select...

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