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2000 Alternative Investment News Archive

28/12 Credit Suisse Expands Fund Lab Online Investment Trading Service
28/12 Malaysia Moves Towards Exchange Traded Funds
28/12 Cyprus: Mutual Funds Legislation To Go Ahead Soon
22/12 First Data Corporation Acquires 25% Of Irish Financial Services Company
22/12 Vodaphone Buys Eircell For $3.8m
22/12 Reuters Scraps Launch Of Instinet Online Trading Product
21/12 Irish Stockbroker Launches Investor Education Programme
21/12 New Site Provides Access To Middle-Eastern Stock Exchanges
21/12 London Stock Exchange Announces E-Trading In Euro Stocks
21/12 Alliance & Leicester Ditches Plan For Mass Affluent Internet Bank
21/12 Moore Stephens Acquires Financial Advisory Firm In Jersey
20/12 Insinger de Beaufort Makes Third Acquisition In Channel Islands This Year
20/12 French Brokers Give Thumbs Up To New After-Hours Trading Platform
20/12 SEC Study Shows That Option Trading Liberalisation Reduces Spreads
20/12 Dubai Discusses Bourse Link-Up With Bahrain and Amman
20/12 Liechtenstein Amends Money Laundering Legislation, Reports Strong Banking Figures
19/12 AssureWeb Announces Launch Of Free International E-Commerce Portal For Financial Advisers
19/12 Malta: BOV Group Extends Stockbroking Services
19/12 American Express To Acquire Sharepeople, Launch Brokerage Services In UK
19/12 Hong Kong Banks Dealing In Securities Face Same Regulation As Brokers
19/12 Merrill Lynch And HSBC Start Online Trading In Australia
18/12 Dresdner Bank Offers Hedge Fund Certificates To Retail Investors
18/12 Hedge Funds Receive $4.2bn Of New Assets In Q3 2000 Says Tass Research
15/12 Investec Aquires Offshore Trust Companies In Jersey, Switzerland
15/12 Jiway Adds S & P 500 And Nasdaq Stocks To European Range
15/12 Ofek, Credit Suisse Join Forces To Offer Mutual Funds To Israeli Investors
15/12 Offshore Fund Manager Invesco Completes Acquisition Of UK's Perpetual Funds
14/12 UK Online Broker EO To Buy Rival EPO
14/12 Hong Kong Investors Still Cautious Of Hedge Funds
14/12 Cyprus Stock Exchange Board Slams New Bill As An "Insult"
14/12 Bank Of Bermuda Virtually Safe From Takeover
13/12 HSBC Raises Profile In Hong Kong
13/12 Cyprus: Proposed Law Could Replace CSE Transaction Tax With Capital Gains Tax
12/12 Best-Known E-Brokers Lose Out In Price Survey
12/12 Isle of Man: Offshore Internet Bank FSharp Wins Department of Trade & Industry Accolade
12/12 Hong Kong, Australia Hold Roundtable Meeting On Financial Services
11/12 Eugene Cox Gives Bank Of Bermuda Permission To Break 60/40 Rule
11/12 Franklin Templeton In Talks To Sell Funds Via Swiss Banks
11/12 Bahamas Bank Launches Trust Company
11/12 Major Overhaul Likely For Gibraltar's Tax System, Says Chief Minister
8/12 US Stock Option Holders Have To Watch For Alternative Minimum Tax
8/12 Bermuda's 60/40 Ruling Expected Soon
7/12 Malta's Central Bank Governor Calls For Consistency In Bank Supervision Responsibilities
7/12 Hedge Fund Operator GLG Partners Splits From Lehman Brothers
7/12 Fewer Bricks For UBS; More Bricks For T D Waterhouse
7/12 Research Firm Says Swiss Winning The Online Banking War, Advises On Future Of Online Financial Services
6/12 Tax-Free Trading Of Wall Street's Stock, Bond & Commodities Markets From Offshore
6/12 Cyprus: Political Party Joins CSE Council In Opposition To New Stock Exchange Laws
6/12 Insinger de Beaufort Sets Up Guernsey Team To Distribute Investment Products
6/12 Alexander Forbes Acquires Channel Islands Insurance Broker And Financial Adviser
6/12 CFDs: The Kiss Of Death For Stock Exchanges?
5/12 Credit Suisse Focuses On Hedge Funds, Onshore Private Banking
5/12 Guernsey Sees Big Growth In Investment Funds
4/12 Cyprus Government Says All Share Transactions Must Be Pre-Paid, Increases SEC Powers
1/12 Research Firm Says Today's Online Broking Will Give Way To Wealth Management by 2005
1/12 Hong Kong Investment Group Sees Shares Plunge After Scam Allegations
30/11 Bahamas: Securities Industry Regulations 2000 Now In Effect
30/11 Hong Kong: Standard Chartered Introduces All-In-One Investment Solution
30/11 Isle Of Man: Bank Of Ireland Launches New Website
30/11 Thailand Gets First Online Mutual Fund Service
29/11 US Dotcom Investors Will Bale Out For The Tax Losses Before Year-End
29/11 Belgian Dentist Seen Crossing Andorran Border
29/11 Close International Private Banking, IFG Make Acquisitions In Jersey
29/11 Hong Kong: Standard Chartered Launches Internet Banking Service
28/11 Hong Kong Monetary Authority Grants Banking Licence To Credit Suisse
28/11 CSFB Offers Offshore Hedge Fund To Small Investors
28/11 Hong Kong Broker Enters Online Insurance Arena
27/11 Eastern Caribbean Securities Commission Due Soon
27/11 Swiss Private Bank Enhances Client Services With New Website
24/11 Credit Suisse Completes Deal To Acquire J O Hambro
24/11 Gibraltar Makes A Bid To Become An Investment Fund Centre
24/11 TFSBlackwood To Launch Day Trading Centre In London
24/11 Tradepoint Increases Turnover And Losses
23/11 Germany's Largest Internet Incubator Sets Up In Hong Kong
22/11 Costa Rica State-Owned Banks To Offer Online Services
21/11 Fidelity Launches Improved Investor Web-Site
21/11 Hong Kong: Growth Enterprise Market Chief Denies Second Board Is A "Failure"
20/11 Fund Management Websites Risk Closure For Flouting FSA Rules, Says Research Group
20/11 BVB Asset Management Group Opens In Gibraltar
20/11 SG Hambros Rolls-Out Nasdaq-Linked Deposit Account
17/11 Liberty Group Acquires UK Hedge Fund Business
16/11 China To Usurp Hong Kong's Stock Exchange, Says Expert
16/11 Fidelity Reportedly Set To Reopen Online UK Brokerage Service
16/11 SEC Agrees Milder Rules For Auditor Independence
15/11 Schroders Investment Management Tops Guernsey Funds Market
15/11 Abbey National Launches Service For UK's "New Affluents"
15/11 Bahamas: New Law Allows Foreign Inspectors To Scrutinise Banks
15/11 Cyprus Stock Exchange Crisis Continues - Stockbrokers At Fault, Says Investors Group
14/11 BFSB Moves To Establish Best Standards And Practices Committee
14/11 Cyprus Central Bank Blocks Plans For New Bank
14/11 Hong Kong's Growth Enterprise Market Loses Lustre
14/11 Report Says Mass Affluent Being Badly Served By Investment Advisers
14/11 Schroders Opens Its Doors To Europe's Wealthy
13/11 Alternative Investments Gain Ground In Europe
13/11 New Batch Of Launches For UK's Successful Venture Capital Trust Sector
13/11 On-Line Brokerages Add Bricks To Clicks, Seek Bank-Style Profits
10/11 Bermuda Asset Manager Plans $264m Flotation On New York Stock Exchange
10/11 Credit Suisse Launches Mass Affluent Portal
10/11 HSBC Issues New Growth Fund Tranche For Cautious Investors
10/11 UBS To Buy Swiss Mutual Fund Firm
9/11 Turkish Fund Celebrates Successful Collaboration With Guernsey Manager
9/11 Chase JF, CyberWorks To Invest US$30m In Stock Trading Joint Venture
9/11 Israeli Discount Bank Gets Go-Ahead In Switzerland
8/11 Cyprus Enlists Greek Expert To Help Save Ailing Stock Exchange
8/11 Hedgeworld.com Plans To Launch The First Global Online Supermarket For Hedge Funds
7/11 Capital Z Partners and Zurich Financial Services Group Create New Global Alternative Asset Management Company
7/11 IRS Defers Bahamas' Bid To Obtain QI Status
7/11 Switzerland: First Integrated Financial Portal To Launch January 2001
6/11 Switzerland: Federal Banking Commission Grants Julius Baer Licence For Online Bank
6/11 Good News For Investors As US Giant Plans Tie-Up With Hong Kong Financial Portal
6/11 Japan's Postal System Gears Up To Distribute Mutual Funds
3/11 Hong Kong Exchange Postpones Plans For New Futures Products
3/11 Swissquote Buys InvestServices.com
2/11 Fleming Launches New Offshore Custody Service
1/11 Rothschild Plans To Consolidate European Wealth Management Activities
31/10 Deutsche Boerse Online Market To Offer European, Nasdaq Stocks
31/10 Online Tech Stocks Advice Launched For Private Investors
30/10 Exchange Traded Funds Catching On - Slowly
27/10 Bermuda: Deloitte & Touche Told Of Concerns Over Collapsed Hedge Fund
27/10 Barclays Seeks Alliances To Cater For Europe's Wealthy
27/10 Cayman Islands Thriving In Spite Of OECD/FATF Crackdown
27/10 Allied Irish Dumps Plans For Independent Internet Bank
26/10 Charles Schwab Opens Hong Kong Branch As Online Stock Trading Nears
25/10 Deutsche Bank To Buy Most Of France's Banque Worms, Eyes Wealthy
25/10 US Steams Ahead With Approvals Of Qualified Intermediary Rule-Books
24/10 Tradepoint and SWX Seal Virt-x Deal
24/10 HSBC Malta Opens New Sales Office
23/10 Fair Disclosure Regulation May Reduce Wall Street Transparency
23/10 Extensive Bahamian Legislative Programme Will Be In Place This Fall
23/10 Despite government promises of support, the CSE still feels the pressure
20/10 Tax Incentives To Boost Cyprus Stock Exchange
20/10 ING Bank Will Offer Private Equity To Its Clients
19/10 IRS Approves Gibraltar Withholding Tax Application
19/10 Bermuda Banks Set To Meet US Tax Requirement
18/10 E-Banking Gains Ground In Hong Kong
18/10 Credit Suisse Private Banking Set To Acquire UK's JO Hambro Investment Management
17/10 Isle of Man Awarded QI Status As Island Gets Its House In Order
17/10 Costa Rican Business Environment Keeps Investors Coming In
17/10 Greenspan Urges Faster Settlement Of Stock Trades
16/10 FATF Lifts Warning On Seychelles Investment Law
13/10 Cyprus Spawns Wealth Of Online Services For Stock Exchange Investors
13/10 Brazil May Scrap Transaction Tax On Stock Exchange Trades
12/10 Lowtax.net's First E-Commerce Special Report On Gibraltar Available Now
11/10 Euromoney To Hold Private Banking MasterClass in London
11/10 US Funds Have Much To Offer
10/10 The World's Banks Line Up To Offer Private Banking To The Poor Rich
10/10 US Fixed Income Funds Beat Out Equity Funds In Q3
9/10 FATF Praises 7 Offshore Centres For Anti-Money Laudering Measures But Sanctions Still Threaten
9/10 Prudential Launches Private Banking-Style Asset Management Programme
5/10 Cyprus ISP Develops Online Trading For Individual Investors
4/10 Bermuda: First Bermuda Buys Gulfstream Financial
4/10 Deutsche Asset Management UK Launches Hedge Fund
3/10 Swiss Bank Represented In Malta
3/10 Hong Kong's Cash Online Targets Mobile Investors, Promotes IPO Service
3/10 Hong Kong's Internet Banking Has Opportunity To Flourish Says Expert
3/10 UBS Rated Best Online Broker In Switzerland
2/10 Bank Of Scotland Launches NatWest Private Banking Unit
29/9 SEC To Review Web-Based 'Basket' Portfolio Products
29/9 Sharelink Aims To Become Cyprus Gateway For UK Investors
28/9 Deutsche Bank Launches European On-Shore Hedge Fund
28/9 Hong Kong's SFC Plans Help For Smaller Brokerages
27/9 Hong Kong: Electronic Trading System Needs More Tests, Launch Delayed
25/9 Liechtenstein Banks Formally Announce End Of Anonymous Accounts From October 1st
23/9 Actively-Traded ETFs Get Off To A Good Start in Frankfurt
22/9 Old Mutual, Nedcor Asia Launch New Mutual Fund In Hong Kong
22/9 Hong Kong: Hang Seng Bank Offers Enhanced Services To Investors
20/9 Jiway Signs Up 30 European Brokers For On-Line Trading, Offers Back-Office Platform
20/9 Credit Suisse Offers Online Investment Service To Europe's Wealthy
19/9 Merrill Lynch To Open Dublin Office Soon
19/9 Foreign Giants Enter Hong Kong's Online Stock Trading Arena
18/9 UK Stock Market Has Plenty To Offer US Investors
18/9 E*Trade Sets Up In Bermuda To Offer International Equities
18/9 US Company HNS Invests in Hong Kong Broadband Internet Infrastructure Provider
15/9 Mutuals.com: The Wal-Mart Of The Mutual Fund Business
15/9 The Congress Looks Into Internet Securities Fraud
15/9 Wilmington Trust Expands Into Grand Cayman And The Channel Islands
14/9 German E-Broker To Buy France's Self Trade
13/9 HSBC To Start Online Initial Public Sale Service In Hong Kong
12/9 Hong Kong Investors Get Direct Access To US Equity And Options Markets
11/9 US Bank Chooses Jersey For Private Banking Operation
8/9 Yahoo!, Online Broker To Tap Individual Investor Boom
8/9 Swiss Private Bank Julius Baer Outsources Services
7/9 Irish Brokers Embrace Online Trading
7/9 Deutsche Bank To Create Upscale Private Bank, First Pan-European Online Broker
6/9 Reuters/Multex Launch Multexinvestor.co.uk For The "Serious" Investor
5/9 Central Europe Gearing Up For Private Investors
1/9 Bermuda Rapped Over Berger Fraud
1/9 IslamiQStocks.com Targets Wealthy Muslim Investors
31/8 Internet Investment Club Exposed As Sham
31/8 Credit Suisse Confirms Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Purchase
30/8 Online Trading: More Power To The Investor
29/8 E*Trade Hopes To Lure High Net Worth Investors With PrivateAccounts.com Buy
25/8 Avanza Prepares To Shake Up European Online Broking
24/8 Australia's Union Capital Invests In Maldives Offshore Bank
24/8 Moody's Says European Distribution Of Mutual Funds Still Difficult
23/8 Individual Investors Get A Fair Crack Of The Whip On Wall Street
15/8 Cyprus Government Tries To Moderate Market Falls
14/8 Tom.com Shares Suspended 'Pending Announcement'
10/8 Bank Of Bermuda Looks Into $95m Investment Fraud
10/8 Guernsey: Banker And Client In Close Touch With BankWorld
9/8 Jersey: Standard Chartered Bank Strenthened By Gindlays Acquisition
9/8 Guernsey Launches New Websites FocusGuernsey And Homelink
7/8 Gibraltar Launches Innovative New Umbrella Fund
4/8 Mutiny At The Cyprus Stock Exchange
3/8 Four New Internet Brokers Offer "Home-Brewed" Mutual Funds
2/8 TD Waterhouse To Launch Luxembourg Share Dealing Operation
28/7 GlobalNet Financial, UBS Warburg Take Stakes in Online Investment Service EO
26/7 Fidelity Online Accounts Surge
26/7 TowerGroup Launches New Unit Focused On Latin American And Carribean Financial Services Industry
25/7 Hong Kong Will Use Electronic IPO To Sell Transport Shares
24/7 E*Trade Buys 'Equity Basket' Stock Management Firm
24/7 Bermuda: Relaxing 60/40 Rule Could Affect Share Prices, Cause Job Losses
20/7 Skandia and DBS Management In Fund Supermarket Move
19/7 ANZ Teams Up With Singapore's OCBC Bank To Net Asia's Rich
17/7 STOXX change, Archipelago and Virt-x The Shape Of Things To Come?
17/7 Bank of China Launches Online Banking Services
17/7 Bank Of Ireland To Buy Personal Finance "Infomediary"
13/7 Costa Rican Banks Must Look To The Hi-Tech Future
13/7 UBS Enhances Private Banking Side With Paine Webber Capture
12/7 GEM No Longer Pouring Riches Into Hong Kong Dotcoms
11/7 Hang Seng Index Above 17,000 Again
10/7 Cyprus Financial Group and Greek Insurer Join Forces On Mutual Funds
10/7 Tradepoint Launches Eurotop 300 Trading Today
10/7 Institutional Money Market Funds Association Launched
7/7 Five Banks Slug It Out For Chase Manhattan's Hong Kong Retail Business
6/7 SEC Approves Tradepoint To Offer European Stocks Direct To US Investors
5/7 High Tech IPOs With Good Stories Are Coming Back To Hong Kong's GEM
3/7 Indian Offshore Online Trader Pulls Plug On Canada Operations
30/6 Tradepoint To Start European Stock Dealing Service In July
28/6 Bermuda To Launch New Trading System for Hedge Fund Investors
27/6 Virgin Launches Online Financial Services Supermarket
26/6 Island and Uclick In South Korean Securities Trading Venture
22/6 Monument Launches Internet Fund For US Investors
22/6 Joseph Safra Opens Swiss Private Bank
21/6 Hong Kong's GEM Loses ValenceTech IPO
19/6 E*Trade Buys Versus For $174m
19/6 Mutual Fund Company Vanguard Enhances Website Capabilities
15/6 Cyprus Stock Exchange Fears SEC Will Rule The Roost
15/6 Poor Market Conditions Delay Quamnet's Listing on Hong Kong's GEM
14/6 London Clings On To Fund Management Crown For 1999
8/6 Standard & Poor's Fund Services Group Reaches Out To Investors
7/6 UK Mutual Fund Trading Platforms Go Head To Head
6/6 SEC Warns US Investors About The Dangers Of Variable Annuities
6/6 Irish Stock Exchange Switches to Electronic Trading
2/6 UK Financial Services Authority Warns Against 'Boiler Room' Share Scams
1/6 HKT Board Grant Unanimous Approval to CyberWorks Union
1/6 Primark Announces Equity Investment In UK Mutual Fund Performance Data Provider TrustNet
26/5 ANZ Bank Buys Into Hong Kong Online Brokerage
25/5 New ASP "e-Solution" Available for Offshore Fund Management
25/5 UK Forest Website Helps Investors Seeking Tax Benefits
24/5 Hong Kong's GEM High-Tech Market Underperforms, But Plans Changes
24/5 Cyprus Stock Exchange To Address Listing Backlog
23/5 Swiss Banking Giant UBS Lists Global Shares On Wall Street
23/5 Cyprus Stock Exchange and VAT Bills Delayed Again
23/5 Soros Takes A Back Seat As New 'Conservative' Fund Is Unveiled
22/5 Island ECN Switches To Decimal Trading
17/5 44 Indicted In Manhattan For 'Pump And Dump' Offshore Stock Fraud
12/5 Standard Bank Offshore Gives Major E-Commerce Contract To Buchanan Brown
8/5 UK FSA Chairman Warns Hedge Funds They May Face Direct Regulation
5/4 S&P Gives Top Rating to Royal Bank of Scotland Jersey Funds
4/4 Cyprus Passes IPO Investor Protection Law
27/3 Financial Stability Forum Attacks Offshore Centres
7/3 HedgeTrust Exchange Launched in Bermuda
7/3 Guernsey Bank Deposits and Funds Reached New Highs in 1999
6/3 Hong Kong Budget May Give Offshore Funds A Tax Break
18/2 Bermuda Stock Exchange Announces Record Results
18/2 Cayman Stock Exchange Boosted by New Bank of Butterfield Funds
7/2 Swiss Private Banking Shifts Towards Smaller Players
31/1 Net Investor Fund To Operate Through Guernsey
25/1 Cyprus Establishes One-Stop-Shop And Hi-Tech Incubators
21/1 Mauritius Re-Launches Inward Investment Regime
18/1 EU Takes Luxembourg To Court On Investor Protection
17/1 IOMplc To Become Public/Private Marketing Brand
10/1 Bermuda Recognises BVI Stock Exchange
10/1 Irish Stock Exchange To Offer Electronic Trading
8/1 Cendant Acquires Australian Expat Management Services Company
5/1 IOM Chief Minister Welcomes Close Banking Group
5/1 Another Bermuda Web-Site To Offer Hedge Fund Trading
5/1 Cyprus Scraps Interest Rate Ceiling
5/1 E-Commerce Venture Capital Company Launched In Bermu
5/1 IOM Bank Offers Man United Offshore Accounts

 

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