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30 April 2024

PORTUGAL: Portugal’s Shift from Real Estate to Investment Funds for Golden Visa Eligibility

In a significant shift echoing trends seen across Europe, Portugal has recently adjusted the qualifications for its Golden Visa program, moving away from the once popular real estate investment route.

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30 April 2024

EUROPE: Major European Banks Paying Russia More in Taxes Than Before Ukraine Invasion

Major European banks that continue to do business in Russia paid the government four times more in taxes in 2023 than in the year before Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Financial

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29 April 2024

CHINA: China and Europe agreed on the development of the circular economy

The recently presented plan outlines the joint efforts of the EU and China to implement the Memorandum of Understanding between the union and the world’s most populous country on the circular

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29 April 2024

ASIA: South-east Asia poised for sustainable bond lift-off

While 2023 was a slowdown year for the sustainable bond market worldwide, the Asean+3 region (the 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus China, Japan and South Korea) slowed down less than most.

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29 April 2024

SINGAPORE: Singapore sees fewer new Chinese family offices after money-laundering crackdown

The influx of family offices handling money of Chinese origin has slowed in the wake of Singapore’s multibillion-dollar money-laundering scandal Tighter checks for new applicants are partly to blame

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29 April 2024

UK: UK urged to tighten defences against ‘dirty money’ after offshore data leak

The Government is facing fresh calls to tighten Britain’s defences against “dirty money” after a leak of offshore data exposed the secret financial dealings of some of the world’s richest and

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29 April 2024

CHINA: China temporarily exempts foreign firms from taxes for reinvested profits

China said on Thursday it will temporarily exempt foreign firms from paying provisional income tax on profits they re-invest into the economy, in a bid to stop foreign firms shifting their operations

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26 April 2024

White Paper Finds Fund Domiciles will be ‘Front and Centre’ of Tokenisation Trend

Press Release from Jersey Finance, Wednesday 24 April, 2024.  Asset managers can expect to feel the full impact of tokenisation before the end of this decade – but fund domiciles need to keep up

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26 April 2024

US: US institutions have withdrawn over $200 million from investment crypto products

CoinShares, a digital asset manager, reported that institutional investment in crypto products saw an outflow for the second week in a row. According to their latest report on digital asset fund flows,

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26 April 2024

AFRICA: South Africa’s Regulator Greenlights Crypto Asset Providers for Licensing

South Africa’s Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has officially confirmed and detailed the list of crypto asset service providers (CASPs) currently approved to operate. The regulator announced

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