Off-Shore Accounts

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Off-Shore Bank accounts

UNTIL RECENTLY, you could bank on banking secrecy. You knew that if you opened an offshore account in the Channel Islands or Isle of Man, no one could find out about it unless you authorised it. Financial confidentiality was alive and well. Over just a few short years the situation has, however, changed dramatically.

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