Thursday 27 November 2014

Company registration in Estonia using the "new" e-residency

Estonian government has decided to sell is digital signature to anyone who wants it. They are calling it the "e-residency" and claiming that they are first in the world to offer such a service. If you want one your self, you will be able to acquire one at the end of 2014. Whit the cost of just 50 Euros and a visit to Estonia's  Police and Border Guard office. But is there an actual point of this so called "e-residency" - I think not.

Monday 24 November 2014

Limited liability partnership

A limited partner ship is a form of a partner ship, that put limited liability on some or all of the partners. This form separates every partner form another, removing the liability for another partners negligence or misconduct. Meaning that each involved party wants to start a partner ship together, but do not not want to be responsible for the other party's actions where the parties are unfamiliar with each other or cannot full trust each other. The abbreviation most often used for this form of a company is LLP.

Friday 21 November 2014

2014 Offshore excellence awards

Acquisition International calling them self "The voice of corporate finance" is an international monthly magazine specializing in corporate finance news and reporting. They have said to be working with the leading industry analysts to ensure the latest and most accurate news in the industry. As of yet I can't confirm or deny the claims.

Thursday 20 November 2014

Germany

For some odd reason I haven’t heard too much of Germany lately and yet, quietly sitting in the middle of Europe they have managed be the fourth country in the world by nominal GDP. They do have a large population of 80 million and almost 73% of them are from age 15 to 64. The working population has been growing for couple of decades and managed to reach from 65% in 80s to almost 73% in 2012.

Thursday 9 October 2014

Joint stock companies

Joint stock companies (JSC) are another type of offshore and onshore incorporated companies. JSC company is a company owned by shareholders. The shares of the company may be in uneven amounts to different persons and may be transferred(or sold) at any time to any other person without any damage to the company. JSC are sometimes also regarded as unlimited companies, this abbreviation is mostly used in the UK.

Thursday 2 October 2014

The Commonwealth of nations

The Commonwealth of nations is an intergovernmental organisation with Queen Elizabeth II as the head of the organization and the head of the 53 member states. 16 of the 53 three states fall under the monarch of the queen Elizabeth and are also known as the Commonwealth realms. The the members of the organization are united by language history and culture, shared values of human rights and rule of law. There is no political obligation between any two member states. The commonwealth manages to span over one fourth of the total land area of the world. The members states together produce over 17% of the total Gross Domestic product of the world.

Monday 22 September 2014

Vanuatu

The country consists of more that 80 small islands and officially is called the Republic of Vanuatu. Located in the South Pacific Ocean more than two thousand km away from Australia and around 800 km west of the island of Fiji. The island was inhabited by the Melanesian population when is was discovered by an Portuguese navigator. The island was claimed as a property of Spain and named Espiritu Santo. Later the islands were claimed by the British and the country only started is independence movement in the 70’s.