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The Africa Board: How the Mauritius Stock Exchange innovates!
With a strong growth record and increasingly substantial international presence, the Mauritius Stock Exchange has become an attractive platform for Africa-focused ventures. Now, with its sights firmly set on future growth and innovation, the launch of the new Africa Board continues to position it as a preferred partner for companies…
Four reasons Mauritius is becoming the fintech hub for Africa
With recent developments in the financial services space, investors are looking for increasingly sophisticated ways and marketplaces to transact in a digital world – without unnecessarily taking on extra risk. Let’s look at four initiatives Mauritius is putting in place to position itself as an innovation and fintech hub. The…
South African Yachting Crew. How to plan your affairs
The world’s yachting management business is large and attracts staff from around the world. The South African contingent has been growing considerably of late, not least because it offers an opportunity to work with limited passport and visa issues. The question arises though, as to how to optimize that opportunity…
BVI modernises AML requirements to recognise new technologies
Following consultation with the Joint Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Advisory Committee (JALTFAC), the Anti-Money Laundering Code was amended on 19 July 2018 by means the Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) (No. 2) Code of Practice, 2018. The amendments came into force as of 1 August 2018. The major…
Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement – Mauritius and Sao Tomé Principe
Sao Tomé & Principe located in the Golf of Guinea is a former Portuguese colony, well known for its petroleum exploration which started during the late 1980s and which has since developed and where the potential exists, for further development of the country’s petroleum industry. On 6 May 2016, Mauritius…
Mauritius India Protocol to Double Tax Treaty Signed
The Mauritius-India DTT was entered into in 1983. The 1990’s brought about the Mauritian Global Business Services by encouraging foreign investors to channel their investments in India through companies set up in Mauritius. For the past few years it has been argued by Indian authorities that a large number of…