That means U.K. citizens and U.K. companies will get reported for foreign accounts just like Americans.
Goosen has a residence in England and as a non-domiciliary U.K. resident wanted to claim benefits under the U.S.-U.K. tax treaty.
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In 2012, Bank of Cyprus PCL, the largest Cypriot bank, converted its U.K. branch into a subsidiary under pressure from U.K. authorities.
Its U.K. deposits were thus formally covered by the U.K. deposit-guarantee program.
Leong doesn't seem worried about the setback in the U.K. "Certainly we're experiencing a weakening U.K. economy and business is tough, " he says.
Market insiders also question whether an eventual U.K. downgrade would dent the relative safe-haven allure of U.K. government bonds, also known as gilts.
In June 2011, the U.K. ordered UPS to temporarily stop moving air cargo through some of its U.K. facilities because of security concerns.
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The U.K. government has come under mounting pressure from business associations and some U.K. lawmakers, angry at the increasingly aggressive rhetoric coming out of Washington.
Investors who are bullish on the U.K. housing market also point to the scarcity of land in the U.K. and to an overall shortage of housing.
The U.K. had also supported a redrafting of the embargo, although U.K. officials had always stressed they had no plan to start sending arms into Syria.
The regulator, Ofcom, said Everything Everywhere, Hutchison 3G U.K., Telefonica U.K., Niche Spectrum Ventures and Vodafone all won spectrum in the auction for the superfast airwaves.
Both MF Global and The Street would have been seen as no brainers in the U.K. The U.K. market simply does not present such high upside opportunities.
The Nevis-based advisory company is not authorized to do business in the U.K., the FSA said, and it was believed to be targeting individuals in the U.K. with various financial schemes.
Britain wanted the right "to impose higher capital requirements on certain institutions to reflect the potential call on U.K. taxpayers of the U.K.'s large and international financial sector, " the paper said.
While the U.K. still lags behind the U.S. in mixing entertainment and retail, the pace of change is increasing as the U.K. economy continues to stagnate and consumer confidence remains low.
With the offices now in Germany, U.K. and the U.S., Fab can now cross-sell more products internationally from, say, designers in Germany to customers in the U.S. and U.K., and vice versa.
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Last Monday, Sue Akers, the Metropolitan Police official overseeing the U.K. investigations, laid out accusations of "a culture at the Sun of illegal payments, " including bribes to policemen and other U.K. government officials.
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The company, which operates approximately 1, 860 retail jewelry stores in the U.S. and U.K., was led by the strength of U.S. operations, while its U.K. business sales were slightly down or flat, year-over-year.
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The anti-TARP backlash and populism will be far greater in Germany than in the U.K. and U.S. The U.S. and U.K. backed off from a FTT when push came to shove, but Germany may not.
So if you hear the U.K. government is bringing the referendum issue to a head you can guess that the U.K. is going to leave the EU. This exit will of course have hugely consequences.
The movement largely grew out of opposition to U.K. membership of the euro, a do-or-die struggle to preserve the U.K.'s independence in the face of what was seen as an inevitable step towards political union.
Visiting the U.K. with former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, she confided to an aide that she had developed a bit of a crush on a U.K. politician the then chancellor, and future Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
The catch was the video was only available to people logging in from computers in the U.K. But there are techniques to essentially trick computers to think a feed was coming from the U.K., for example.
Fab has also been focusing on international expansion, having acquired companies in Germany and the U.K. Goldberg wants to be able to sell products from the U.S. in German and U.K. markets, and vice versa.
According to the U.K. border agency, it takes between five to 10 minutes to register for IRIS and a registered traveler entering the U.K. by passing through the IRIS barrier can clear immigration in about 20 seconds.
In the U.K., the Bank of England revealed that it is concerned about the stalled economic growth in the U.K. to such a degree that it is considering the potential need to pump more liquidity into its economy.
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Racing ahead of rivals like Temenos of Switzerland and Misys of the U.K., Flexcube snagged the top spot in the annual sales ranking by International Banking Systems, a U.K.-based industry publication, three years ago and has hung on there.
Investors also are paying increasing attention to the rental-apartment sector in the U.K. In the past four years, the number of people living in rentals has increased 23% to 3.8 million, according to the U.K. Office of National Statistics.
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