Thinking of Starting Up Your Own Bank Or Financial Institution?
Bank Ownership Offshore
Offshore bank ownership solutions include a New Zealand Finance Company, an EU Registered Trust Company, a Panama registered Forex Brokerage, or a Closed End Fund registered in the British Virgin Islands.
Each of these bank ownership solutions can be set up in tax advantaged manner in tax advantaged jurisdictions.
It is possible to set up a tax advantaged banking solution and to be able to offer traditional banking services including the provision of checking and savings accounts, certificates of deposit, trust account services, wire transfer services, credit and debit card services, and trust account services.
The rules and regulations vary front one jurisdiction to another. However, it is perfectly legal to set up an offshore banking solution in any of several jurisdictions world wide, taking advantage of the laws of that country. In general, it is possible to find jurisdictions when one does not to provide the capital reserves required of a traditional bank in the same country.
Not All Offshore Banking Solutions Are the Same
If you are considering banking offshore talk to an offshore expert because not all offshore banking solutions are the same.
The world is full of decent offshore banking solutions and there are a handful of exceptional offshore banking solutions. Why not go with the best and most professional choices?
You should work out the best offshore banking solution in your choice of jurisdictions. Offshore shore banking in tax advantaged jurisdictions can save you money. Offshore banking can be very discrete in an increasingly intrusive world. Offshore banking can be safe and profitable.
An offshore banking solution should save you money, guard your privacy, and protect your assets.
Offshore Banking Solutions: Closed End Funds
One of the many offshore banking/financial institution options is to start and run you own closed end hedge fund. An offshore expert can help you explore the opportunities involved in such an investment and its relevance to your personal needs.
An offshore closed end fund option is in the British Virgin Islands. Such a fund invests pooled assets, charges management fees, and, typically, receives performance fees on profits.
The British Virgin Islands are a tax advantaged jurisdiction for such an institution. Reporting requirements and the attendant overhead are minimal in the British Virgin Islands helping to hold costs down.
Such a fund can engage in investments and trading world wide without excessive reporting requirements to local institutions. This is a tax advantaged location. You can seek advice about the pros and cons of starting a British Virgin Islands registered closed end fund. It is also possible to obtain the technical support required to successfully run a closed end fund in the British Virgin Islands.
A closed end fund can be a very successful undertaking if properly set up and managed in a tax advantaged, low overhead location.
Offshore Banking Solutions: Forex Brokerage
An attractive offshore banking/finance option is to set up a Forex brokerage in the country of Panama. This is a tax advantaged jurisdiction with minimal overhead from reporting requirements in its jurisdiction.
There is a several opportunities offered by setting up a Forex brokerage in the Republic of Panama. If property set up and managed a Forex brokerage in Panama can be a profitable undertaking in a tax advantaged jurisdiction with a low overhead as relates to reporting requirements in Panama.
Panama has an advanced telecommunications infrastructure sufficient to support active trading as done by the brokerage houses and individual traders working out of Panama. The expertise and infrastructure knowledge needed for a successful Forex brokerage business is something the investor will need to bring to the table. You can be provided the advice and council to successfully register and set up business in this offshore location.
You should seek advice about the pros and cons of incorporating in Panama as an offshore corporation. This is a tax advantaged location and if property set up and managed can offer a substantial overhead reduction as relates to local reporting requirements.
Offshore Banking Solutions: Trust Company
An attractive offshore banking/finance solution is a trust company registered in the European Union. You should ask about the advantages of registering the company in the EU while accounts are held and administered in a tax advantaged offshore location. This is traditionally a service of large banks but can be provided from a tax advantaged offshore jurisdiction as an offshore banking solution available to investors.
If properly set up and managed, such a trust company can act as a legal trustee for clients throughout the world. Such a company can be set up with the capability to wire monies worldwide and can offer debit cards for account holders. Talk to an offshore advisor about the opportunities offered by acting as a trustee to a world wide client base using an EU and other offshore solution.
As with all offshore solutions, seek competent, trustworthy council in setting up the business entity. Talk about your goals and business risk tolerance. You will get help to evaluate and set up this or any other offshore banking solution in tax advantage locations with low reporting overhead.
Who Sets Up Offshore Banks and Why?
Banks set up offshore banks as do corporations, groups of companies, and groups of investors. The formation of an offshore can be extremely tax advantaged for the investment, corporate, or banking group. In the right location the cost of business can be significantly less than in the countries of origin of the bank shareholders.
Setting up a bank allows the entities mentioned above to profit from their own banking needs and profit from selling banking services to others. The tax advantages of offshore locations as well as well packaged services such as trust accounts, international credit and debit cards, savings and checking accounts, loan services if well merchandized can attract business and provide a profit over and above the savings that the offshore bank can provide its shareholders.
Seek advise about use of an offshore bank for your business and ownership of your own offshore bank alone or with partners. Talk to an offshore advisor about locations and options in creating your own offshore banking ownership solution.
As with all business ventures good planning, competent council and careful follow through will lead to the best results.
Why a New Zealand Finance Company?
The country of New Zealand allows one to set up a credit union, building society, or finance company as well as a registered bank in its jurisdiction. Why would one choose to form a New Zealand Finance Company?.
Each situation is unique, each jurisdiction, each individual. You will get help with an appraisal of the needs of the investor and the opportunities in the jurisdiction. An opportunity that presents itself in New Zealand is that a New Zealand Finance Company can be set up and managed without the substantial reserves required of a standard bank. Also, such an entity can be set up to reduce paperwork by not requiring the supervision of the New Zealand Federal Reserve Bank.
Despite the ease of operation of this opportunity and potential for a low cost of entry such an entity can offer a full range of banking services to offshore customers, including checking and savings accounts, credit card services, and investment marketing.
In general, the ease of operation and freedom from red tape involved in a New Zealand Finance Company comes with offering services only off clients offshore from New Zealand.
A New Zealand Finance Company might be what you are looking for. A refreshing and low cost alternative to a fully licensed bank.
An offshore formations and banking specialist working for several companies regarding offshore structures, formation of companies, foundations, banks and financial institutions.
Working for User Bancorp Ltd, which is providing private and corporate accounts, merchant accounts, offshore companies such as Belize IBC's (International Business Company), Panama corporations and foundations, wire transfer services, managed funds/forex, credit- debit- and prepaid card issuing.
