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Welcome to Herbert Smith Freehills’ monthly private wealth industry updates in Asia. Every month we survey ten Asian jurisdictions for legal developments concerning trust and estate planning which are of interest to the private wealth industry, and provide a succinct summary in a table format. The jurisdictions covered in the update are Hong Kong, Singapore, … Read more
Welcome to Herbert Smith Freehills’ monthly private wealth industry updates in Asia. Every month we survey ten Asian jurisdictions for legal developments concerning trust and estate planning which are of interest to the private wealth industry, and provide a succinct summary in a table format. The jurisdictions covered in the update are Hong Kong, Singapore, … Read more
Should the trustee of an offshore trust involve itself in proceedings concerning the trust that take place onshore? The received wisdom is that an offshore trustee should be slow to do so and it has long been the position of the Jersey Court that, on questions of validity of a Jersey trust, it is unlikely … Read more
In our penultimate article in our countdown of the most significant risk and compliance issues faced by trust companies, anti-money laundering (AML) is considered the second most significant challenge. Background Money laundering and terrorist financing risk has been a key area of focus for regulators across the globe for some years – and this trend … Read more
In the eleventh episode of our Private Wealth and Charities podcast series, Richard Norridge, Susannah Cogman and Daniel Hyde discuss the results of our Trust Companies Survey. As our countdown continues, and we reach second place on the podium of the most significant risks our respondents face, we explore the money-laundering risks faced by trust … Read more
Our survey shows that trust companies consider cyber attack to be one of the greatest challenges they face. The results show that trustees consider phishing, impersonation and malware to be the main cyber security risks they face. Some 33% of respondents said they saw phishing as the main risk whilst 22% identified impersonation as a … Read more
In the tenth episode of our Private Wealth and Charities podcast series, Richard Norridge, and Elena Hogg discuss the results of our Trust Companies Survey. As our countdown continues, and we reach the podium of the most significant risks our respondents face, we explore the cyber security risks faced by trust companies. Read more
In the ninth episode of our Private Wealth and Charities podcast series, Richard Norridge, and Nick Clayton discuss the results of our Trust Companies Survey. As our countdown of the most significant risks trust companies face continues, we explore the tax risks faced by the respondents to our survey. Read more
In the eighth episode of our Private Wealth and Charities podcast series, Richard Norridge, and Miriam Everett discuss the results of our Trust Companies Survey. As our countdown of the most significant risks continues, we explore the data protection and data privacy risks faced by trust companies. Read more
