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The Bermuda branch of the Institute of Directors (IoD Bermuda) has almost doubled its membership, and now they are holding an awareness tomorrow night for those people who already hold a directorship and for those who aspire to the become a director....
DATE: Jun 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
A new software development consultancy has launched in Bermuda to serve the Island’s burgeoning alternative risk transfer market.
Treefrog Consulting offers risk system software development services to the Bermuda re/insurance industry.
It says it pl...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013
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Other
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A British newspaper article said Prime Minister David Cameron could make Bermuda open up on taxes if it wanted to.
"If Bermuda succeeds in undermining an attempted crackdown on tax havens, it's because our PM allowed it to happen," writes The Guardia...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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Freisenbruch-Meyer Insurance Services’ (FMIS) announcement to customers on Friday that they will stop providing health insurance as of July 15 has left at least one customer angrily questioning the legality of the move as well as the company’s offer ...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley has taken Conyers Dill & Pearman and one of its attorneys to task after neither the firm nor its client turned up for a trial involving a company caught in the Madoff fraud.
In a stern ex tempore costs ruling, Chief Justice ...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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Apparel retailers are seeing a new phenomenon — the impulse purchaser has become a special occasion shopper.
With retail sales down since the beginning of the year, retailers say they have seen this distinct change in shopper’s habits, propelled by ...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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AUTHOR:
Rebecca Zuill
Bank of Butterfield and Ascendant Group were movers yesterday, but the trades did not affect the BSX index, which closed unchanged at 1,151.00.
Butterfield shares traded at 1.40 with a volume of 6,700, and Ascendant moved at 11.01 with 62 changing ha...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Bermuda Stock Exchange
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A billionaire investor and his family’s Bermuda’s IAT Reinsurance are suing the US Internal Revenue Service for refunds of $186 million in taxes and interest they paid after the IRS revoked IAT’s tax-exemption retroactively.
Forbes reports that in co...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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A leading UK economist and columnist for the Financial Times has come to Bermuda’s defence in the growing tax avoidance debate.
Under the headline “Don’t blame the havens tax dodging is everyone else’s fault”, John Kay writes that the week’s Group of...
DATE: Jun 19, 2013
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CATEGORY:
International Business
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Chief Justice Ian Kawaley has taken Conyers Dill & Pearman and one of its attorneys to task after neither the firm nor its client turned up for a trial involving a company caught in the Madoff fraud.
In a stern ex tempore costs ruling, Chief Justice...
DATE: Jun 18, 2013
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CATEGORY:
Local Business
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