The Non-Dom Tax Rule: Understanding Remittance vs Arising Taxes (& How It Could Save World’s Best Footballers Millions)

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The world’s best footballers tend to earn jaw dropping sums of money, and their tax affairs tend to be complex, to say the least. In the past couple of years, in Spain, several, including Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, who play for Barcelona and Real Madrid respectively and together share the mantle of “world’s best footballers” have tangled with the Spanish tax authorities over undeclared income. Read more “The Non-Dom Tax Rule: Understanding Remittance vs Arising Taxes (& How It Could Save World’s Best Footballers Millions)”

Visa & MoneyGram Announce Joint Partnership To “Modernize & Digitize” International Money Transfers

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2 financial services giants; Visa in the payments space, and MoneyGram in the overseas money transfer sector; are set to join forces to further streamline the process for consumers of sending funds overseas. Read more “Visa & MoneyGram Announce Joint Partnership To “Modernize & Digitize” International Money Transfers”

Google Is Cleaning Up It’s Payments Act, Merging Apps & Offering Enhanced Services; Could International Money Transfer Be Next?

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This month, Google announced some sweeping changes to its payment services, which had become a little confused, and confusing. Read more “Google Is Cleaning Up It’s Payments Act, Merging Apps & Offering Enhanced Services; Could International Money Transfer Be Next?”

Brexit White Paper Deep Dive: What Does British Industry Really Want, & Why?

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In his introduction to the government’s controversial Brexit white paper; the country’s first attempt to try to explain on paper how leaving the EU by March 29th, 2019 might work; new Brexit secretary Dominic Raab talks about how “technological revolutions and scientific transformations are driving major changes in the global economy.” Read more “Brexit White Paper Deep Dive: What Does British Industry Really Want, & Why?”

Brexit White Paper Deep Dive – What Are The Implications For UK and EU based Financial Services?

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Yesterday, we described the circumstances relating to the release of the UK governments much anticipated White Paper, which outlines how the UK intends to go about leaving the EU on 29th March 2019, and briefly described some of the ways that Brexit is expected to disrupt international trade between the UK and EU. Today let’s look at financial services in more detail. Read more “Brexit White Paper Deep Dive – What Are The Implications For UK and EU based Financial Services?”

Chequers, Brexit & The Long Awaited White Paper; How Will The UK Trade Overseas After Leaving The EU?

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Even by Brexit standards, it has been a tumultuous week for UK politics. A much-publicised meeting at Chequers took place over the weekend to discuss the White Paper that Theresa May has spent the past 2 years preparing, describing under what specific terms exactly the UK will complete its divorce from the European Union. The discussions resulted in the resignations of Boris Johnson and David Davis, 2 key “Leave” campaigners who helped swing the referendum in favour of Brexit. The White Paper has continued to attract outspoken criticism from both hardline Brexiteers like Jacob Rees Mogg and Iain Duncan Smith, the opposition Labour party, and the EU itself.

It has been a difficult start for Dominic Raab, the new Brexit secretary, but looking beyond the chaos, we feel it is more than worthwhile to review the White Paper in detail and try to understand what the implications are, starting from an international trade perspective. There is, after all, much to be learned from this 108 page document, some of which has even met with approval from a majority of stakeholders! Read more “Chequers, Brexit & The Long Awaited White Paper; How Will The UK Trade Overseas After Leaving The EU?”

Tempted To Move Abroad? UBS Reveals List Of Most Expensive Cities For Expats, & Some Of The Best Priced

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Life as an expat can be full of surprises; a new culture to learn, surroundings to explore and barriers to overcome. Amidst so much uncertainty, if you are planning to make a big move overseas but have not yet decided where, or want to get the lowdown on your destination of choice, UBS’s latest Cost Of Living Around The World report may well have the answers you are looking for. Read more “Tempted To Move Abroad? UBS Reveals List Of Most Expensive Cities For Expats, & Some Of The Best Priced”

Singapore, The Lion City With The Wow Factor, Offers Unforgettable Experiences For Everyone, Starting With These 100!

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Jen reviews fantastic guide to 100 things to do and experience in Singapore reminds me of my first visit to this incredible city state, almost exactly a year ago, writes The Money Cloud’s Edmund Ingham  Read more “Singapore, The Lion City With The Wow Factor, Offers Unforgettable Experiences For Everyone, Starting With These 100!”

Demand For “High Quality” British Goods Boosting Exports To Record Levels & Narrowing Trade Deficit, Says DTI

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Figures from the Department for International Trade (DTI) for the year to March 2018 reveal that exports of UK goods have hit record highs, with the combined sales of goods and services overseas exceeding £620.2bn. Read more “Demand For “High Quality” British Goods Boosting Exports To Record Levels & Narrowing Trade Deficit, Says DTI”

What Type Of International Money Transfer Services Are You Using (& What Type Should You Be Using)?

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The technology industry is sometimes guilty of over-hyping its influence over the world, and over-exaggerating the usefulness of its products. Is a restaurant food ordering app really so very different from a takeaway menu leaflet? Was a taxi-cab rank genuinely the inconvenience that it is made out to be today? And remember when dating meant face-to-face contact over dinner or a drink, rather than swiping left or right in a couple of milliseconds?

In the case of money transfer, you could be forgiven for concluding that, despite the hype about mobile wallets, blockchain remittance services, superior exchange rates offered and fees reduced to all-time lows, you’d rather stick with the tried and tested. Read more “What Type Of International Money Transfer Services Are You Using (& What Type Should You Be Using)?”

How To Make It To Russia To Watch England Play Sweden In World Cup QF – & Save Money!

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It’s coming home. England’s nerve-shredding victory over Colombia last night was watched by an incredible 23m of the population, and whilst many may have been hiding behind the sofa as the goals, fouls, and penalties flew in, a nation is celebrating, and contemplating an unprecedented run all the way to the final of Russia 2018. Can you get to Russia in time for the QF? Maybe, just maybe. Read more “How To Make It To Russia To Watch England Play Sweden In World Cup QF – & Save Money!”

Will The UK Remain In Single European Payments Area Post Brexit? EPC Issues New Guidance

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Now that it is all but official that the UK will leave the EU on the 20th March 2019, there will doubtless be a flurry of activity by firms, particularly within the financial sector, to try to establish what the various scenarios and implications of Brexit will mean for them. Read more “Will The UK Remain In Single European Payments Area Post Brexit? EPC Issues New Guidance”

PWC / Open Data Institute Investigate State Of “Open Banking” Revolution In New Report

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Amidst all the recent discussion and hand-wringing around the new GDPR regulations, it’s easy to forget that it was only in January this year that the updated Payment Services Directives, a set of EC-wide regulations designed to make it easier, faster and less expensive to for customers to pay for goods and services, by promoting innovation, came into force.

If the introduction of PSD2 has gone a little under the radar, a new report from PWC, in association with the Open Data Institute, argues that the effects of the Open Banking “revolution” certainly won’t. The report estimates that “Open Banking has the potential to create a revenue opportunity of at least £7.2bn by 2022 across retail and SME markets.” Read more “PWC / Open Data Institute Investigate State Of “Open Banking” Revolution In New Report”