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19 September 2025

FAMILY OFFICES: Family offices steady the course as trade tensions test global portfolios, Citi reveals

Despite the multiple challenges of trade frictions, slowing growth and shifting regulatory signals, family offices remain steady in their investment approach, according to new research. Citi Wealth

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19 September 2025

PORTUGAL: Portugal Golden Visa New Rules 2025: What Investors Need to Know

The Portugal Golden Visa new rules 2025 mark the biggest change in the program since it started in 2012. For over a decade, residency through investment was driven by real estate. That option ended

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19 September 2025

US: FinCEN plans to delete data on U.S. companies from beneficial ownership database

Five years after ICIJ’s FinCEN Files investigation exposed the pivotal role the U.S. financial system plays in global dirty money flows, authorities are winding back landmark reforms pushed through

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12 September 2025

NORWAY: How wealth tax became a battleground in Norway’s election

It is the issue that has set the Norwegian general election alight: whether to keep, cut or abolish the national wealth tax. As the country prepares to go to the polls on Monday, Norway is in the grip

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12 September 2025

UK: UK watchdog takes fresh aim at financial secrecy

Global watchdog Transparency International (TI) UK has published comprehensive guidelines for implementing publicly-accessible beneficial ownership registers in the UK’s offshore financial centres.

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12 September 2025

MONEY LAUNDERING: Roman Abramovich under investigation in Jersey over corruption and money-laundering claims

The former Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich is the subject of a criminal investigation by the Jersey authorities over allegations of corruption and money laundering in connection with the

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12 September 2025

SWITZERLAND: Swiss lawmakers push back on anti-money laundering law over competitiveness concerns

Swiss lawmakers are seeking to water down government proposals to help prevent financial crime, saying the country needs to stay competitive in global cross-border wealth management where rival centres

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12 September 2025

BANKING: The Future of Offshore Banking: Privacy, Compliance, and Non-Resident Accounts in 2025

Once synonymous with secrecy and shadows, offshore banking has transformed in the past decade. In the wake of the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and the OECD’s Common Reporting Standard

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12 September 2025

AFSIC: Investing in Africa Returns to London on October 14–15, 2025

Press release from AFSIC, Friday 12 September, 2025. The Premier Event for Driving Investment and Business Growth Across the African Continent AFSIC – Investing in Africa, one of the most influential

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12 September 2025

US: Eric Trump booted from cryptocurrency board after company talks with stock regulators

Eric Trump will no longer serve as a director on the board of a cryptocurrency firm after the company held talks with stock market regulators despite an earlier announcement. Fintech firm Alt5 Sigma

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