Market Report

By: Bill Blevins Financial Correspondent, Blevins Franks IT HAS been the norm to plump for the known and reliable markets of the US, UK and more recently Continental Europe as

By: Dennis Swing-Green International Fiscal Consultant for euroFINESCO eurofinesco@portugalresident.com Ways of keeping your habitation licence THIS SPRING, for the third consecutive year, inspectors from Autoridade de Segurança Alimentar e Económica

Christian Bjorlow (pictured) is the new Managing Director of Jyske Bank (Gibraltar) Limited. Christian, aged 40, who is married with two children, has been the Private Banking Manager in Jyske

By: Bill Blevins Financial Correspondent, Blevins Franks UNTIL RECENTLY, you could bank on banking secrecy. You knew that if you opened an offshore account in the Channel Islands or Isle

IN LINE with its expansion plans in Portugal, Barclays Bank has opened another branch in the Algarve, this time in the town of Carvoeiro at Estrada do Farol. Branch manager

By: Raoul Ruiz Martinez Investment Advisor Finesco Financial Services Ltd. INTEREST RATE decisions by the Bank of England will already be dominating the headlines in the UK but just how

By: Bill Blevins Financial Correspondent Blevins Franks blevins@portugalresident.com BRITONS LIVING abroad tend to open an offshore bank account to help with their banking arrangements. You will also need to open

By: Bill Blevins blevins@portugalresident.com THE UK tax revenue has launched an “Offshore Disclosure Facility” in an all out unprecedented drive to scoop five billion pounds sterling in unpaid tax. The

By: Bill Blevins blevins@portugalresident.com UK inflation hit 3.1 per cent in March, its highest level since comparable records began in 1997, breaking through the three per cent barrier whereby the

STEP welcomes new UK tax rules for foreign homebuyers