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28/12/2000 Cyprus: Mutual Funds Legislation To Go Ahead Soon
28/12/2000 Malaysia Moves Towards Exchange Traded Funds
28/12/2000 Credit Suisse Expands Fund Lab Online Investment Trading Service
22/12/2000 First Data Corporation Acquires 25% Of Irish Financial Services Company
22/12/2000 Vodaphone Buys Eircell For $3.8m
22/12/2000 Reuters Scraps Launch Of Instinet Online Trading Product
21/12/2000 Moore Stephens Acquires Financial Advisory Firm In Jersey
21/12/2000 New Site Provides Access To Middle-Eastern Stock Exchanges
21/12/2000 Irish Stockbroker Launches Investor Education Programme
21/12/2000 London Stock Exchange Announces E-Trading In Euro Stocks
21/12/2000 Alliance & Leicester Ditches Plan For Mass Affluent Internet Bank
20/12/2000 Liechtenstein Amends Money Laundering Legislation, Reports Strong Banking Figures
20/12/2000 Insinger de Beaufort Makes Third Acquisition In Channel Islands This Year
20/12/2000 Dubai Discusses Bourse Link-Up With Bahrain and Amman
20/12/2000 French Brokers Give Thumbs Up To New After-Hours Trading Platform
20/12/2000 SEC Study Shows That Option Trading Liberalisation Reduces Spreads
19/12/2000 Hong Kong Banks Dealing In Securities Face Same Regulation As Brokers
19/12/2000 Malta: BOV Group Extends Stockbroking Services
19/12/2000 AssureWeb Announces Launch Of Free International E-Commerce Portal For Financial Advisers
19/12/2000 American Express To Acquire Sharepeople, Launch Brokerage Services In UK
19/12/2000 Merrill Lynch And HSBC Start Online Trading In Australia
18/12/2000 Dresdner Bank Offers Hedge Fund Certificates To Retail Investors
18/12/2000 Hedge Funds Receive $4.2bn Of New Assets In Q3 2000 Says Tass Research
15/12/2000 Investec Aquires Offshore Trust Companies In Jersey, Switzerland
15/12/2000 Jiway Adds S & P 500 And Nasdaq Stocks To European Range
15/12/2000 Ofek, Credit Suisse Join Forces To Offer Mutual Funds To Israeli Investors
15/12/2000 Offshore Fund Manager Invesco Completes Acquisition Of UK's Perpetual Funds
14/12/2000 Cyprus Stock Exchange Board Slams New Bill As An "Insult"
14/12/2000 Hong Kong Investors Still Cautious Of Hedge Funds
14/12/2000 Bank Of Bermuda Virtually Safe From Takeover
14/12/2000 UK Online Broker EO To Buy Rival EPO
13/12/2000 Cyprus: Proposed Law Could Replace CSE Transaction Tax With Capital Gains Tax
13/12/2000 HSBC Raises Profile In Hong Kong
12/12/2000 Hong Kong, Australia Hold Roundtable Meeting On Financial Services
12/12/2000 Isle of Man: Offshore Internet Bank FSharp Wins Department of Trade & Industry Accolade
12/12/2000 Best-Known E-Brokers Lose Out In Price Survey
11/12/2000 Bahamas Bank Launches Trust Company
11/12/2000 Eugene Cox Gives Bank Of Bermuda Permission To Break 60/40 Rule
11/12/2000 Franklin Templeton In Talks To Sell Funds Via Swiss Banks
11/12/2000 Major Overhaul Likely For Gibraltar's Tax System, Says Chief Minister
08/12/2000 US Stock Option Holders Have To Watch For Alternative Minimum Tax
08/12/2000 Bermuda's 60/40 Ruling Expected Soon
07/12/2000 Malta's Central Bank Governor Calls For Consistency In Bank Supervision Responsibilities
07/12/2000 Research Firm Says Swiss Winning The Online Banking War, Advises On Future Of Online Financial Services
07/12/2000 Hedge Fund Operator GLG Partners Splits From Lehman Brothers
07/12/2000 Fewer Bricks For UBS; More Bricks For T D Waterhouse
06/12/2000 Alexander Forbes Acquires Channel Islands Insurance Broker And Financial Adviser
06/12/2000 CFDs: The Kiss Of Death For Stock Exchanges?
06/12/2000 Cyprus: Political Party Joins CSE Council In Opposition To New Stock Exchange Laws
06/12/2000 Insinger de Beaufort Sets Up Guernsey Team To Distribute Investment Products
06/12/2000 Tax-Free Trading Of Wall Street's Stock, Bond & Commodities Markets From Offshore
05/12/2000 Credit Suisse Focuses On Hedge Funds, Onshore Private Banking
05/12/2000 Guernsey Sees Big Growth In Investment Funds
04/12/2000 Cyprus Government Says All Share Transactions Must Be Pre-Paid, Increases SEC Powers
01/12/2000 Hong Kong Investment Group Sees Shares Plunge After Scam Allegations
01/12/2000 Research Firm Says Today's Online Broking Will Give Way To Wealth Management by 2005
30/11/2000 Hong Kong: Standard Chartered Introduces All-In-One Investment Solution
30/11/2000 Isle Of Man: Bank Of Ireland Launches New Website
30/11/2000 Thailand Gets First Online Mutual Fund Service
30/11/2000 Bahamas: Securities Industry Regulations 2000 Now In Effect
29/11/2000 Belgian Dentist Seen Crossing Andorran Border
29/11/2000 Close International Private Banking, IFG Make Acquisitions In Jersey
29/11/2000 Hong Kong: Standard Chartered Launches Internet Banking Service
29/11/2000 US Dotcom Investors Will Bale Out For The Tax Losses Before Year-End
28/11/2000 CSFB Offers Offshore Hedge Fund To Small Investors
28/11/2000 Hong Kong Broker Enters Online Insurance Arena
28/11/2000 Hong Kong Monetary Authority Grants Banking Licence To Credit Suisse
27/11/2000 Eastern Caribbean Securities Commission Due Soon
27/11/2000 Swiss Private Bank Enhances Client Services With New Website
24/11/2000 Credit Suisse Completes Deal To Acquire J O Hambro
24/11/2000 Gibraltar Makes A Bid To Become An Investment Fund Centre
24/11/2000 TFSBlackwood To Launch Day Trading Centre In London
24/11/2000 Tradepoint Increases Turnover And Losses
23/11/2000 Germany's Largest Internet Incubator Sets Up In Hong Kong
22/11/2000 Costa Rica State-Owned Banks To Offer Online Services
21/11/2000 Fidelity Launches Improved Investor Web-Site
21/11/2000 Hong Kong: Growth Enterprise Market Chief Denies Second Board Is A "Failure"
20/11/2000 Fund Management Websites Risk Closure For Flouting FSA Rules, Says Research Group
20/11/2000 BVB Asset Management Group Opens In Gibraltar
20/11/2000 SG Hambros Rolls-Out Nasdaq-Linked Deposit Account
17/11/2000 Liberty Group Acquires UK Hedge Fund Business
16/11/2000 China To Usurp Hong Kong's Stock Exchange, Says Expert
16/11/2000 Fidelity Reportedly Set To Reopen Online UK Brokerage Service
16/11/2000 SEC Agrees Milder Rules For Auditor Independence
15/11/2000 Abbey National Launches Service For UK's "New Affluents"
15/11/2000 Bahamas: New Law Allows Foreign Inspectors To Scrutinise Banks
15/11/2000 Cyprus Stock Exchange Crisis Continues - Stockbrokers At Fault, Says Investors Group
15/11/2000 Schroders Investment Management Tops Guernsey Funds Market
14/11/2000 Cyprus Central Bank Blocks Plans For New Bank
14/11/2000 Hong Kong's Growth Enterprise Market Loses Lustre
14/11/2000 Report Says Mass Affluent Being Badly Served By Investment Advisers
14/11/2000 Schroders Opens Its Doors To Europe's Wealthy
14/11/2000 BFSB Moves To Establish Best Standards And Practices Committee
13/11/2000 Alternative Investments Gain Ground In Europe
13/11/2000 New Batch Of Launches For UK's Successful Venture Capital Trust Sector
13/11/2000 On-Line Brokerages Add Bricks To Clicks, Seek Bank-Style Profits
10/11/2000 Credit Suisse Launches Mass Affluent Portal
10/11/2000 HSBC Issues New Growth Fund Tranche For Cautious Investors
10/11/2000 UBS To Buy Swiss Mutual Fund Firm
10/11/2000 Bermuda Asset Manager Plans $264m Flotation On New York Stock Exchange
09/11/2000 Chase JF, CyberWorks To Invest US$30m In Stock Trading Joint Venture
09/11/2000 Israeli Discount Bank Gets Go-Ahead In Switzerland
09/11/2000 Turkish Fund Celebrates Successful Collaboration With Guernsey Manager
08/11/2000 Cyprus Enlists Greek Expert To Help Save Ailing Stock Exchange
08/11/2000 Hedgeworld.com Plans To Launch The First Global Online Supermarket For Hedge Funds
07/11/2000 Capital Z Partners and Zurich Financial Services Group Create New Global Alternative Asset Management Company
07/11/2000 IRS Defers Bahamas' Bid To Obtain QI Status
07/11/2000 Switzerland: First Integrated Financial Portal To Launch January 2001
06/11/2000 Good News For Investors As US Giant Plans Tie-Up With Hong Kong Financial Portal
06/11/2000 Japan's Postal System Gears Up To Distribute Mutual Funds
06/11/2000 Switzerland: Federal Banking Commission Grants Julius Baer Licence For Online Bank
03/11/2000 Hong Kong Exchange Postpones Plans For New Futures Products
03/11/2000 Swissquote Buys InvestServices.com
02/11/2000 Fleming Launches New Offshore Custody Service
01/11/2000 Rothschild Plans To Consolidate European Wealth Management Activities
31/10/2000 Deutsche Boerse Online Market To Offer European, Nasdaq Stocks
31/10/2000 Online Tech Stocks Advice Launched For Private Investors
30/10/2000 Exchange Traded Funds Catching On - Slowly
27/10/2000 Allied Irish Dumps Plans For Independent Internet Bank
27/10/2000 Barclays Seeks Alliances To Cater For Europe's Wealthy
27/10/2000 Cayman Islands Thriving In Spite Of OECD/FATF Crackdown
27/10/2000 Bermuda: Deloitte & Touche Told Of Concerns Over Collapsed Hedge Fund
26/10/2000 Charles Schwab Opens Hong Kong Branch As Online Stock Trading Nears
25/10/2000 Deutsche Bank To Buy Most Of France's Banque Worms, Eyes Wealthy
25/10/2000 US Steams Ahead With Approvals Of Qualified Intermediary Rule-Books
24/10/2000 Tradepoint and SWX Seal Virt-x Deal
24/10/2000 HSBC Malta Opens New Sales Office
23/10/2000 Despite government promises of support, the CSE still feels the pressure
23/10/2000 Fair Disclosure Regulation May Reduce Wall Street Transparency
23/10/2000 Extensive Bahamian Legislative Programme Will Be In Place This Fall
20/10/2000 ING Bank Will Offer Private Equity To Its Clients
20/10/2000 Tax Incentives To Boost Cyprus Stock Exchange
19/10/2000 Bermuda Banks Set To Meet US Tax Requirement
19/10/2000 IRS Approves Gibraltar Withholding Tax Application
18/10/2000 Credit Suisse Private Banking Set To Acquire UK's JO Hambro Investment Management
18/10/2000 E-Banking Gains Ground In Hong Kong
17/10/2000 Costa Rican Business Environment Keeps Investors Coming In
17/10/2000 Greenspan Urges Faster Settlement Of Stock Trades
17/10/2000 Isle of Man Awarded QI Status As Island Gets Its House In Order
16/10/2000 FATF Lifts Warning On Seychelles Investment Law
13/10/2000 Brazil May Scrap Transaction Tax On Stock Exchange Trades
13/10/2000 Cyprus Spawns Wealth Of Online Services For Stock Exchange Investors
12/10/2000 Lowtax.net's First E-Commerce Special Report On Gibraltar Available Now
11/10/2000 Euromoney To Hold Private Banking MasterClass in London
11/10/2000 US Funds Have Much To Offer
10/10/2000 The World's Banks Line Up To Offer Private Banking To The Poor Rich
10/10/2000 US Fixed Income Funds Beat Out Equity Funds In Q3
09/10/2000 FATF Praises 7 Offshore Centres For Anti-Money Laudering Measures But Sanctions Still Threaten
09/10/2000 Prudential Launches Private Banking-Style Asset Management Programme
05/10/2000 Cyprus ISP Develops Online Trading For Individual Investors
04/10/2000 Deutsche Asset Management UK Launches Hedge Fund
04/10/2000 Bermuda: First Bermuda Buys Gulfstream Financial
03/10/2000 Hong Kong's Cash Online Targets Mobile Investors, Promotes IPO Service
03/10/2000 Hong Kong's Internet Banking Has Opportunity To Flourish Says Expert
03/10/2000 UBS Rated Best Online Broker In Switzerland
03/10/2000 Swiss Bank Represented In Malta
02/10/2000 Bank Of Scotland Launches NatWest Private Banking Unit
29/09/2000 SEC To Review Web-Based 'Basket' Portfolio Products
29/09/2000 Sharelink Aims To Become Cyprus Gateway For UK Investors
28/09/2000 Deutsche Bank Launches European On-Shore Hedge Fund
28/09/2000 Hong Kong's SFC Plans Help For Smaller Brokerages
27/09/2000 Hong Kong: Electronic Trading System Needs More Tests, Launch Delayed
25/09/2000 Liechtenstein Banks Formally Announce End Of Anonymous Accounts From October 1st
23/09/2000 Actively-Traded ETFs Get Off To A Good Start in Frankfurt
22/09/2000 Hong Kong: Hang Seng Bank Offers Enhanced Services To Investors
22/09/2000 Old Mutual, Nedcor Asia Launch New Mutual Fund In Hong Kong
20/09/2000 Credit Suisse Offers Online Investment Service To Europe's Wealthy
20/09/2000 Jiway Signs Up 30 European Brokers For On-Line Trading, Offers Back-Office Platform
19/09/2000 Foreign Giants Enter Hong Kong's Online Stock Trading Arena
19/09/2000 Merrill Lynch To Open Dublin Office Soon
18/09/2000 E*Trade Sets Up In Bermuda To Offer International Equities
18/09/2000 US Company HNS Invests in Hong Kong Broadband Internet Infrastructure Provider
18/09/2000 UK Stock Market Has Plenty To Offer US Investors
15/09/2000 Mutuals.com: The Wal-Mart Of The Mutual Fund Business
15/09/2000 The Congress Looks Into Internet Securities Fraud
15/09/2000 Wilmington Trust Expands Into Grand Cayman And The Channel Islands
14/09/2000 German E-Broker To Buy France's Self Trade
13/09/2000 HSBC To Start Online Initial Public Sale Service In Hong Kong
12/09/2000 Hong Kong Investors Get Direct Access To US Equity And Options Markets
11/09/2000 US Bank Chooses Jersey For Private Banking Operation
08/09/2000 Swiss Private Bank Julius Baer Outsources Services
08/09/2000 Yahoo!, Online Broker To Tap Individual Investor Boom
07/09/2000 Deutsche Bank To Create Upscale Private Bank, First Pan-European Online Broker
07/09/2000 Irish Brokers Embrace Online Trading
06/09/2000 Reuters/Multex Launch Multexinvestor.co.uk For The "Serious" Investor
05/09/2000 Central Europe Gearing Up For Private Investors
01/09/2000 IslamiQStocks.com Targets Wealthy Muslim Investors
01/09/2000 Bermuda Rapped Over Berger Fraud
31/08/2000 Credit Suisse Confirms Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Purchase
31/08/2000 Internet Investment Club Exposed As Sham
30/08/2000 Online Trading: More Power To The Investor
29/08/2000 E*Trade Hopes To Lure High Net Worth Investors With PrivateAccounts.com Buy
25/08/2000 Avanza Prepares To Shake Up European Online Broking
24/08/2000 Australia's Union Capital Invests In Maldives Offshore Bank
24/08/2000 Moody's Says European Distribution Of Mutual Funds Still Difficult
23/08/2000 Individual Investors Get A Fair Crack Of The Whip On Wall Street
15/08/2000 Cyprus Government Tries To Moderate Market Falls
14/08/2000 Tom.com Shares Suspended 'Pending Announcement'
10/08/2000 Guernsey: Banker And Client In Close Touch With BankWorld
10/08/2000 Bank Of Bermuda Looks Into $95m Investment Fraud
09/08/2000 Guernsey Launches New Websites FocusGuernsey And Homelink
09/08/2000 Jersey: Standard Chartered Bank Strenthened By Gindlays Acquisition
07/08/2000 Gibraltar Launches Innovative New Umbrella Fund
04/08/2000 Mutiny At The Cyprus Stock Exchange
03/08/2000 Four New Internet Brokers Offer "Home-Brewed" Mutual Funds
02/08/2000 TD Waterhouse To Launch Luxembourg Share Dealing Operation
28/07/2000 GlobalNet Financial, UBS Warburg Take Stakes in Online Investment Service EO
26/07/2000 Fidelity Online Accounts Surge
26/07/2000 TowerGroup Launches New Unit Focused On Latin American And Carribean Financial Services Industry
25/07/2000 Hong Kong Will Use Electronic IPO To Sell Transport Shares
24/07/2000 Bermuda: Relaxing 60/40 Rule Could Affect Share Prices, Cause Job Losses
24/07/2000 E*Trade Buys 'Equity Basket' Stock Management Firm
20/07/2000 Skandia and DBS Management In Fund Supermarket Move
19/07/2000 ANZ Teams Up With Singapore's OCBC Bank To Net Asia's Rich
17/07/2000 Bank of China Launches Online Banking Services
17/07/2000 Bank Of Ireland To Buy Personal Finance "Infomediary"
17/07/2000 STOXX change, Archipelago and Virt-x The Shape Of Things To Come?
13/07/2000 Costa Rican Banks Must Look To The Hi-Tech Future
13/07/2000 UBS Enhances Private Banking Side With Paine Webber Capture
12/07/2000 GEM No Longer Pouring Riches Into Hong Kong Dotcoms
11/07/2000 Hang Seng Index Above 17,000 Again
10/07/2000 Cyprus Financial Group and Greek Insurer Join Forces On Mutual Funds
10/07/2000 Tradepoint Launches Eurotop 300 Trading Today
10/07/2000 Institutional Money Market Funds Association Launched
07/07/2000 Five Banks Slug It Out For Chase Manhattan's Hong Kong Retail Business
06/07/2000 SEC Approves Tradepoint To Offer European Stocks Direct To US Investors
05/07/2000 High Tech IPOs With Good Stories Are Coming Back To Hong Kong's GEM
03/07/2000 Indian Offshore Online Trader Pulls Plug On Canada Operations
30/06/2000 Tradepoint To Start European Stock Dealing Service In July
28/06/2000 Bermuda To Launch New Trading System for Hedge Fund Investors
27/06/2000 Virgin Launches Online Financial Services Supermarket
26/06/2000 Island and Uclick In South Korean Securities Trading Venture
22/06/2000 Joseph Safra Opens Swiss Private Bank
22/06/2000 Monument Launches Internet Fund For US Investors
21/06/2000 Hong Kong's GEM Loses ValenceTech IPO
19/06/2000 E*Trade Buys Versus For $174m
19/06/2000 Mutual Fund Company Vanguard Enhances Website Capabilities
15/06/2000 Cyprus Stock Exchange Fears SEC Will Rule The Roost
15/06/2000 Poor Market Conditions Delay Quamnet's Listing on Hong Kong's GEM
14/06/2000 London Clings On To Fund Management Crown For 1999
08/06/2000 Standard & Poor's Fund Services Group Reaches Out To Investors
07/06/2000 UK Mutual Fund Trading Platforms Go Head To Head
06/06/2000 Irish Stock Exchange Switches to Electronic Trading
06/06/2000 SEC Warns US Investors About The Dangers Of Variable Annuities
02/06/2000 UK Financial Services Authority Warns Against 'Boiler Room' Share Scams
01/06/2000 HKT Board Grant Unanimous Approval to CyberWorks Union
01/06/2000 Primark Announces Equity Investment In UK Mutual Fund Performance Data Provider TrustNet
26/05/2000 ANZ Bank Buys Into Hong Kong Online Brokerage
25/05/2000 UK Forest Website Helps Investors Seeking Tax Benefits
25/05/2000 New ASP "e-Solution" Available for Offshore Fund Management
24/05/2000 Cyprus Stock Exchange To Address Listing Backlog
24/05/2000 Hong Kong's GEM High-Tech Market Underperforms, But Plans Changes
23/05/2000 Cyprus Stock Exchange and VAT Bills Delayed Again
23/05/2000 Soros Takes A Back Seat As New 'Conservative' Fund Is Unveiled
23/05/2000 Swiss Banking Giant UBS Lists Global Shares On Wall Street
22/05/2000 Island ECN Switches To Decimal Trading
17/05/2000 44 Indicted In Manhattan For 'Pump And Dump' Offshore Stock Fraud
12/05/2000 Standard Bank Offshore Gives Major E-Commerce Contract To Buchanan Brown
08/05/2000 UK FSA Chairman Warns Hedge Funds They May Face Direct Regulation
05/04/2000 S&P Gives Top Rating to Royal Bank of Scotland Jersey Funds
04/04/2000 Cyprus Passes IPO Investor Protection Law
27/03/2000 Financial Stability Forum Attacks Offshore Centres
07/03/2000 Guernsey Bank Deposits and Funds Reached New Highs in 1999
07/03/2000 HedgeTrust Exchange Launched in Bermuda
06/03/2000 Hong Kong Budget May Give Offshore Funds A Tax Break
18/02/2000 Bermuda Stock Exchange Announces Record Results
18/02/2000 Cayman Stock Exchange Boosted by New Bank of Butterfield Funds
07/02/2000 Swiss Private Banking Shifts Towards Smaller Players
31/01/2000 Net Investor Fund To Operate Through Guernsey
25/01/2000 Cyprus Establishes One-Stop-Shop And Hi-Tech Incubators
21/01/2000 Mauritius Re-Launches Inward Investment Regime
18/01/2000 EU Takes Luxembourg To Court On Investor Protection
17/01/2000 IOMplc To Become Public/Private Marketing Brand
10/01/2000 Bermuda Recognises BVI Stock Exchange
10/01/2000 Irish Stock Exchange To Offer Electronic Trading
08/01/2000 Cendant Acquires Australian Expat Management Services Company
05/01/2000 Another Bermuda Web-Site To Offer Hedge Fund Trading
05/01/2000 Cyprus Scraps Interest Rate Ceiling
05/01/2000 E-Commerce Venture Capital Company Launched In Bermu
05/01/2000 IOM Bank Offers Man United Offshore Accounts
05/01/2000 IOM Chief Minister Welcomes Close Banking Group

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