A List of the Best Offshore Private Vaults
Dateline: Singapore I’ve been fascinated with the concept of offshore private vaults and safe deposit boxes for years. Basically, a private vault is an alternative to a bank safe deposit box. Some vaults are ultra-high-security refuges fit for James Bond while...
13 Non-CRS Countries For Banking Privacy
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia As is the case in most countries, Malaysia has made it harder for foreigners to open a bank account in recent years. When I first started exploring this “muddy estuary” six years ago, the process was straightforward but required a few...
An Introduction to Offshore Banking in Tax-Free Vanuatu
Dateline: Kotor, Montenegro I recently visited the island country of Vanuatu and hung out in Port Vila with a couple of bankers there who are part of the offshore banking circuit. Vanuatu has long been on my radar and I have studied it over the last two or three...
What is a private bank account, and how to get one
Dateline: Warsaw, Poland One of the biggest challenges in the world of offshore strategies and flag theory is a challenge facing many other businesses. The advent of the internet has allowed anyone, in any corner of the planet, to talk about topics as sophisticated...
Why Banking with HSBC Hong Kong is No Longer Appealing
Dateline: Barcelona, Spain Admittedly, I’m not a “movie guy”, but one of my favorite movies of all time is the James Bond flick, The World is Not Enough. In the first scene of the movie, Pierce Brosnan is in Bilbao, Spain haggling with Swiss bankers who helped move...
Five offshore banking countries Americans should avoid
Dateline: Wroclaw, Poland For years, the United States and its cronies at the OECD have led a campaign to shut down offshore banking countries that didn’t goose-step along with their goals of global financial transparency. Countries like Switzerland that have...
The IRS and your (non) right to privacy when banking offshore
Reporting from: Lapu Lapu, Philippines We already know that your money has no fifth amendment protections. The government can force you to testify against yourself in many offshore tax trials… great to know the United States has a Constitution, right? Now the US...
Offshore Banking: How to Open an Offshore Bank Account Legally
How to open an offshore bank account The single best way to protect your money, grow your wealth and safeguard your assets. How to Open an Offshore Bank AccountThe single best way to protect your money, grow your wealth and safeguard your assets. Want to find...
Why Living in “The Third World” Isn’t So Bad
Dateline: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia At the risk of sounding like a teenager who just dyed their hair a shade of fluorescent green, living as an expat in emerging markets “is not a phase”. I have been living overseas in emerging markets for more than a decade now, and I’m...