Cook Islands Special Report

A Pioneering Financial Hub: Insights from Tony Fe’ao on the Cook Islands’ Financial Services In this  new supplement, Tony Fe’ao, a key figure in the Cook Islands financial sector, discusses the evolution, current offerings, and future directions of the Cook Islands as a premier jurisdiction for wealth management and asset protection. Over the past four decades, the Cook Islands has established itself as a well-regulated and highly regarded financial services hub, continually adapting to meet global best practices and the needs of its international clientele.

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Dubai Emerges as a Leading Global Hub

A report titled ‘The Future of Financial Services Talent’ (‘The Report’) issued today by Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the leading global financial centre in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (MEASA) region, in collaboration with London Stock Exchange Group, one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data, reaffirms Dubai’s emergence as a leading global hub for talent attraction. …

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Lithuania Kicks Off

Lithuania has launched a “Startupcation” program and invites foreign startups to experience the booming startup ecosystem of Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city and main startup hub. The program grants fast-lane access to the country’s relevant business networks and hubs and provides an entry point to the European market with more than 700 million customers open to new technologies. Vilnius is home to “Vinted” and “Nord Security” – two of the country’s unicorns – and over a thousand promising startups enjoying great work and life balance in an innovation-friendly business environment with an excellently developed infrastructure and a world-class talent pool. Last…

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Malta is Open

When it comes to business, we live in a global village, but the shifting sands of geopolitical interest do not always recognise this. Political alliances and trading blocs – while designed to protect and benefit those within the clubs – also inevitably serve to put up barriers. In the investment migration arena, blanket restrictions on free movement of peoples can deny many forward-thinking ambitious jurisdictions the opportunity to draw in talent and innovation into priority areas, since they are bound by a forcefield of red tape over which they exercise little control. It also prevents well-meaning entrepreneurial-minded folk disadvantaged by…

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