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Malta’s Ship Registry ranked in the top 20 white-listed Paris MOU Registries

The Malta Ship Registry has broken into the top 20 white-listed MOU Registries for the first time, being placed 17th on the white list. Each year a new White, Grey and Black list are published in the Paris MoU Annual Report. The ...

Yacht charter – one of the safest ways to enjoy a holiday this summer

Chartering a superyacht is often considered to be one of the safest ways to enjoy a holiday, so it’s no surprise that during the coronavirus pandemic we have seen celebrities choose to holiday onboard a yacht instead of other luxury ...

Celebration of Promotions and a Long Service Milestone

We are delighted to announce that we have recently celebrated two promotions and a long service milestone within our Isle of Man office. Receiving promotions were Samantha Wills and Callan Cooper who were promoted to Client Engagement ...

Isle of Man Team return to the office

On the 22nd March we took the decision to close all our offices due to the Covid 19 pandemic and all staff started working from home. To date the Isle of Man has had no confirmed cases of Covid for over a month now and as such lockdown ...

The Malta Individual Investor Programme is reaching its cap

The Malta Individual Investor Programme is reaching its cap and will only continue accepting applications for citizenship under the programme until the 30th of September 2020. What is the Malta Individual Investor Programme? Introduced ...

Digital Onboarding

Digital onboarding is something that many companies have had to adapt to over the last couple of months. But even prior to lockdown it was clear that clients are increasingly interacting with financial institutions digitally, through ...

The Role of a Private Trust Company

In general terms, a Private Trust Company (“PTC”) is a special purpose vehicle established to act as trustee of a family trust or several related trusts. The board of directors of the PTC controls it and as such can direct the ...

COVID-19: A time to reflect – and plan ahead

The COVID-19 pandemic that has swept across the world has taught us a lot of things. In particular, it has shown that you never know what life has in store or what’s around the corner. It has made many of us reflect on what’s important ...

Succession Planning – The Role of Trusts

Trusts are extremely popular for succession planning and wealth preservation and this is for good reason given the various advantages they offer, several of which are outlined below. A Trust is a ‘fiduciary’ relationship where the ...

Boston from Home

During these unprecedented times, the wellbeing of the Boston staff across all our offices is a priority.  As such we have taken the decision to close all our offices until further notice and all staff are now working at home. Please ...

Meet our Managing Director Alex McNee

Please can you give us an overview of your career My career started many years ago with Natwest Trust Corporation, which went on to become Coutts Offshore.  I have worked in many areas of financial services including, Tax, Investment ...

When digital innovation and private clients collide

Whilst innovation and increasingly digitised experiences will inevitably speed up and ease business processes, they will never fully replace human interaction for private client businesses where deep relationships with clients and ...