After repeating yourself a few times, you find yourself wishing that you can just punch your answers in or talk to someone at one of those offshore centers with heavy accents.
Some offshore centers such as Isle of Man and the Cayman Island fell in the listing over recent years but have since recovered Jersey and Guernsey remain the leading offshore centers.
This may seem overly intrusive, but offshore banking centers have been under increasing pressure to stop illegal activity.
The emergence of strong offshore IT centers was obvious to anyone who looked.
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By partnering with Quintos, Kinsella got access to a steady supply of the cheap labor that makes offshore call centers so profitable.
Offshore currency centers, generally set up in places beyond the reach of U.S. or European law enforcement, can serve as middlemen between criminals and the mainstream financial world, brokering transactions that turn illegally obtained money into seemingly legitimate cash.
The conference audience was the right one from which potential whistleblowers could be drawn: It included representatives from offshore entities, high-net worth individuals and others who have information about offshore strategies, including attorneys, judges, trustees and businesses from the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas and other offshore financial centers.
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Chinese financial institutions could just as easily be acquiring dollar debt through offshore banks or other global money centers, mainly through London.
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In fact, it benefits the offshore economies of China and other manufacturing centers more than the USA!
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The City of London is gaining an edge in the race with other global financial centers to snatch a slice of offshore trade in the yuan, also known as renminbi.
The proximity of offshore wind in the the Atlantic Ocean to deep demand centers avoids the problems of moving power over long distances and significantly enhances the economic fundamentals of mega projects like those currently being considered in North Carolina.
But London is growing faster than other financial centers, such as Singapore, as a hub for offshore yuan payments, including payments for currency trading, imports and exports, and dim-sum-bond settlements.
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