1710 results returned for search: "" category "Business" author Jonathan Kent
When leaders of the world's biggest economies meet tomorrow for the G-20 summit in London, offshore financial centres are expected to be in their line of fire.
Several members of the Group of 20 — including Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and F...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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Finance Minister Paula Cox feels that Bermuda is "well positioned" on the eve of a meeting of leaders of the world's major economic powers which could result in measures being taken against offshore financial centres.
Her comments come after it was c...
DATE: Apr 01, 2009
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Eighteen Bermuda reinsurance companies monitored by broker Guy Carpenter suffered a combined loss of $6.6 billion last year.
And shareholders' equity among the same companies in the Guy Carpenter Bermuda Reinsurance Composite plunged by 15 percent, t...
DATE: Mar 31, 2009
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Ratings agency Moody's has put Butterfield Bank's bank financial strength and long-term debt ratings on review for possible downgrade.
Moody's said the move was prompted by its earlier decision, announced on Monday, to put the Government of Bermuda o...
DATE: Mar 19, 2009
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Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards says Government is "way too casual" about the need to make Bermuda's case as an insurance centre, amid rising rhetoric directed at offshore financial centres.
The United Bermuda Party MP's comments came after the ...
DATE: Mar 19, 2009
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Finance Minister Paula Cox looked to differentiate Bermuda from more secretive low-tax jurisdictions yesterday, when she argued that the Island was no "Johnny come lately" amid a widening move towards tax information exchange agreements (TIEAs) betwe...
DATE: Mar 19, 2009
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A downgrade of the Government's debt rating would cost Bermuda taxpayers millions of dollars and Shadow Finance Minister Bob Richards does not want to see it happen.
After Moody's' announcement on Monday that it was putting the Island's bond ratings ...
DATE: Mar 18, 2009
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The Bank of Bermuda and the charitable foundation that shares its name are to focus their giving this year on charities addressing social needs likely to escalate during the economic downturn.
Organisations dealing with children, the elderly and viol...
DATE: Mar 17, 2009
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Political strategist Donna Brazile urged women to seize the opportunity to break through the "glass ceiling" that has limited their professional development for so long.
In an inspiring and entertaining speech on Friday evening at the Fairmont Hamilt...
DATE: Mar 16, 2009
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A class action complaint has been filed Ernst & Young (Bermuda) and others in the United States on behalf of investors in a hedge fund for which it was auditor.
The action was filed at the US District Court for the District of Connecticut on Monday t...
DATE: Mar 13, 2009
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