There must be reasons for doing things-conducting financial transactions and organising financial businesses-offshore instead of onshore. I believe there are three distinct reasons.

选择在离岸而不在岸上或本地进行金融交易及安排金融业务，必定有其原因，我相信当中明显的有三个。

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That was followed by what one economist called the "Bigger Bang": the fast growth in offshore financial transactions funnelled through London thanks to the Euromarket.

紧随而来的是由于欧洲市场转而涌入伦敦的离岸金融的快速增长，即经济学家所说的“又一次金融大爆炸”。

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Another way to minimise taxes is to shift the risk of joint ventures or other transactions offshore.

另一种将税收降至最低的办法是将合资企业或其他交易都转移至海外。

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The 2006 rules marked an attempt to assert Beijing's authority to approve offshore transactions as if they were occurring onshore, introducing a new requirement to obtain approval for the round-trip investment from the Ministry of Commerce.

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It is impossible to tell who benefited from the warrants, because all of these transactions took place offshore.

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Mr Bondi will have to prove in court that, as he alleges, the bank has hidden documents and blocked his access to important information about transactions in some offshore-banking centres.

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