updated Wed. April 18, 2018
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Insurance Business Review
April 18, 2018
The sales are part of the company's strategy to rationalise its international footprint and to improve its operational efficiency and capital allocation. Generali agreed to sell majority stake in its Columbian companies Generali Seguros and Generali Vida to Talanx Group. As per the agreement, Talanx ... Panama
Business Insider
April 18, 2018
Schembri and Mizzi have repeatedly said in public that they do not dispute they set up the Panama companies. But they say the companies were simply intended to manage their private wealth. In another incendiary claim, Daphne alleged that a third Panamanian company was created after Muscat became prime ...
Smithsonian
April 18, 2018
But the U.S., which purchased the French company's equipment, promised they would do it differently. First, the U.S. government tried to broker a deal with Colombia, which controlled the land they needed for construction. When that didn't work, the U.S. backed Panama's separatist rebellion and quickly signed ... Panama Canal Workers
Times of Malta
April 18, 2018
A total of $1.6 million (€1.3 million) was transferred to 17 Black, a Dubai company listed as one of the "target clients" which would pay in money to Keith Schembri's and Konrad Mizzi's once- secret Panama companies, leaked documents show. The men's financial advisers Nexia BT said in a newly ...
OZY
April 18, 2018
De Marotta, executive vice president of engineering at the Panama Canal Authority, was the chief engineer overseeing the expansion project. ... women above her in the company, "she was the pioneer" for female engineers, says Min Chen, former chair of a Panamanian women-in-engineering trade group. Titan
ABC News
April 14, 2018
Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela says Trump Organization lawyers made a mistake by sending a letter to his office in which they appealed for the leader's help in a fight over the control of a luxury hotel. In an interview with The Associated Press Friday, Varela said that he didn't believe Trump wasÃÂ ... Titan
Miami Herald
April 14, 2018
That year, Setar discovered the fraud when Koolman's name popped up in a list of offshore company owners published online as part of the Panama ... In December, Lawrence W. Parker Jr., who owned five companies that did business with Setar, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate theÃÂ ... Titan
Prensa Latina
April 13, 2018
Those Panamanian firms joined another 46 companies banned on March 5, according to the resolution released the day before in the Official Gazette of the ... Venezuelan Vice-President Tareck El Aissami on Wednesday informed that more Panamanian companies were included in the decree to suspendÃÂ ... Titan
ABC News
April 9, 2018
U.S. President Donald Trump's company appealed directly to Panama's president to intervene in its fight over control of a luxury hotel, even invoking a ... That appeal in a letter last month from lawyers for the Trump Organization to Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela was apparently ...
Voice of America
April 5, 2018
Venezuela said on Thursday it was halting commercial relations with Panamanian officials and companies, including regional airline Copa, for alleged involvement in money laundering, prompting Panama to recall its ambassador. The resolution names Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela andÃÂ ...
Business Standard
March 17, 2018
“Primarily, Indian companies having subsidiaries in tax havens are a matter of concern,” the report seen by Business Standard stated. ... It further said just defining a shell company was not enough to identify potential shell firms from the database of the company as there was a very thin line betweenÃÂ ...
The News Herald
March 16, 2018
The main companies behind the bridge's construction have faced questions about their work and one of the companies was fined in 2012 when a 90-ton section ... The suit said a worker at Fort Lauderdale International Airport, where the company is working on an expansion, fell and injured himself when aÃÂ ...
The Hill (blog)
March 16, 2018
A Panamanian judge involved in a dispute over the Trump Organization's management of a 70-story luxury hotel was threatened by lawyers from the company, according to a complaint filed with the country's chief prosecutor. The Associated Press reported Thursday that Marisol Carrera filed a report withÃÂ ...
MINING.com
March 16, 2018
Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM)(LON:FQM) denounced that some workers and leaders from an outside union have been carrying out protest actions since March 9, 2018, which have “reduced the level of work being performed on the [Cobre Panama] project.” The information wasÃÂ ...
City A.M.
March 16, 2018
The law firm at the centre of the Panama papers leak is to close by the end of the month it announced today. In a statement Mossack Fonseca said: “The reputational deterioration, the media campaign, the financial siege and the irregular actions of some Panamanian authorities have caused irreparableÃÂ ...
The News Herald
March 15, 2018
Automakers and tech firms long have been the ones hustling to get self-driving cars on the street. But lately they have been joined by a surprise ally: America's alcohol industry. In recent weeks, two industry groups — one representing wine and liquor wholesalers, and another representing large producersÃÂ ...
The National
March 15, 2018
Last month, Panamanian prosecutors raided the offices of Mossack Fonseca, seeking possible links to Brazilian engineering company Odebrecht. The Brazilian construction firm has admitted to bribing officials in Panama and other countries to obtain contracts in the region between 2010 and 2014.
Press Herald
March 5, 2018
Panamanian police inside the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama City on Monday after a court there gave control of the ... Hotel and Tower in Panama City on Monday, when a team of Trump security officials left the property after the court ruled to remove the president's company.
The News Herald
March 1, 2018
PANAMA CITY — A Panama City company was named the year's Best New Franchise Start by America's Swimming Pool Company. Nick Carver, owner of the Panama City ASP, was selected among 17 new franchises for the company's nationwide award, based on first-year sales. Carver moved his familyÃÂ ...
CNN
February 28, 2018
Panama City, Panama (CNN) Panamanian authorities with helmets and guns entered a Trump-branded hotel in Panama City Wednesday morning, marking ... metrics for success in the hotel industry," according to a lawsuit Fintiklis' investment company filed against two of Trump's companies in January.
New York Times
February 26, 2018
MEXICO CITY — A bitter struggle between a Trump Organization hotel business and the owners of the Panama City hotel that carries the Trump name escalated on Monday when the Panamanian authorities announced that they had begun a formal investigation into the dispute. The country's PublicÃÂ ...
Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel
December 31, 1999
That appeal in a letter last month from lawyers for the Trump Organization to Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela was apparently unsuccessful – an emergency arbitrator days later declined to reinstate the Trump management team to the waterfront hotel in Panama City. But it provides hard proof ofÃÂ ...
Vox
December 31, 1999
Trump Organization lawyers wrote a letter to Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela requesting his “influence” in a private business dispute in Panama and implied that his government could pay consequences if he didn't intervene. The February letter serves as a vivid reminder of how PresidentÃÂ ...
Baystreet.ca
February 15, 2018
While CRA has since audited 122 Canadians related to disclosures in the Panama Papers, this is the first time that such a major investigative milestone has ... “The CRA's investigation identified a series of transactions involving foreign corporations and several transfers through offshore bank accounts usedÃÂ ...
The News Herald
February 15, 2018
The Panama City Beach Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival is partnering with Gulf Coast Children's Advocacy and Visit Panama City Beach for the first-time event. Food Truck Festivals of America, a Boston-based company, primarily pulls from a two-hour driving radius within each host city, searching for theÃÂ ...
Vancouver Sun
February 15, 2018
A December 2016 report from anti-corruption group Transparency International reported that Mossack Fonseca had identified Canada “as an attractive place to set up anonymous companies.” According to the report, half of Vancouver's 100 most expensive homes at the time had been bought using shellÃÂ ...
Investing News Network
February 15, 2018
Top copper producer First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) is on track to expand capacity by 15 percent at its Cobre Panama project in Panama, the company said on Monday (February 12). The project is expected to start phased commissioning during 2018, continue to ramp up over 2019 and reach 85 millionÃÂ ...
GuelphMercury.com
February 15, 2018
Nearly two years after the Panama Papers leak was made public, Canadian tax officials have carried out their first major raids, executing three search warrants across the country. The simultaneous raids Wednesday morning in West Vancouver, Calgary and the GTA were all related to the Panamanian law firm MossackÃÂ ...
The News Herald
February 15, 2018
Diners can still ask specifically for cheeseburgers or chocolate milk with the kid's meal, but the fast-food company said that not listing them will reduce how often they're ordered. Since it removed soda from the Happy Meal menu four years ago, orders for it with Happy Meals have fallen 14 percent, theÃÂ ...
Digital Journal
February 15, 2018
Panama City, FL- CCS Floor Care, a leading Panama city floor care company is helping with a Red Cross charity put-put golf event. ... a table for on-site handouts and promotional materials, a lead sponsor logo placement on all publicity materials, a lead newsletter and a personalized tee with the companies logo/artwork.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (blog)
February 5, 2018
The formal request from four Republicans suggests that links between Russia and social media companies may be a potential factor in new U.S. ... It contained a lot of names ICIJ had found in millions documents about offshore activity that made up the Panama and Paradise Papers investigations.
The Sydney Morning Herald
January 27, 2018
The leak in 2016 of the “Panama Papers” - millions of documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca - is still being trawled through by ... along with two Melbourne law firms, appear to have facilitated aspects of the Swanston Street purchase, assisting in the creation of offshore companies,ÃÂ ...
Houston Chronicle
January 27, 2018
WASHINGTON – It started with Brazil's national oil company, then the clients of a consulting firm in Monaco and two of Europe's largest oil companies, ... corruption investigations has thrown a wrench into that paradigm, ensnaring oil and gas corporations around the world, while putting a microscope onÃÂ ...
The News Herald
January 27, 2018
If I send someone on the road to make money for my company, I pay the bills. It doesn't matter if you're talking about hotel rooms, airfare, or rental cars, those are my expenses. If it's someone who travels a lot, we give them a company debit card. If it's just an occasional thing, we'll give them money out ofÃÂ ...
Business News Americas
January 26, 2018
This news article is one of hundreds published daily by Business News Americas about the commodities, markets, movements, companies, projects, economics and politics integral to the development of Latin America. Including news and insight from South America, Central America and the Caribbean,ÃÂ ...
WJHG-TV
January 19, 2018
(WJHG/WECP) - Panama City Beach is becoming a year-round destination thanks to some national recognition it's getting, and now the area can add one ... The international company CarRentals.com in the Expedia family recently featured our area on its list of top 10 places to road trip in 2018 and visitorsÃÂ ...
The News International
January 18, 2018
ISLAMABAD: The Chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal, while reviewing the preliminary inquiry report of 435 offshore companies owned by 435 Pakistanis in Panama and British Virgin Islands, directed to expedite the process of getting information and recordÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
January 17, 2018
Owners of a Trump-branded skyscraper hotel in Panama are suing the hotel arm of President Donald Trump's business, according to a complaint filed in ... While Trump doesn't own the property, his company continues to earn fees from licensing his name to the building as well as managing the hotel.
Yahoo News UK
January 16, 2018
An attempt to try to strip President Donald Trump's name from a hotel building in Panama has turned bitter, with the U.S. leader's hotel company refusing to leave the Central American country without a fight. Owners of the Trump International Hotel in Panama City, the country's capital, are reportedly fightingÃÂ ...
ABC News
January 16, 2018
The owners of a Trump-branded hotel in Panama sued President Donald Trump's family-owned company in federal court Tuesday, alleging that the namesake business ... Marriott, like most major international companies, has significant business and public policy interests before the Trump administration.
National Observer
January 11, 2018
Her concerns add to an onslaught of complaints facing Canadian mining companies with operations around the world, that have prompted calls for a ... A former provincial governor in Panama with Panamanian and American heritage, Fifer was arrested in Colombia in February 2016 with help from Interpol.
The News Herald
January 5, 2018
$7 million for infrastructure improvements to bring in “Project Bluestar,” an aircraft manufacturing maintenance and overhaul company for large commercial aircraft at ... $20 million to the Panama City Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau to add an indoor facility to the proposed Beach Sports Park.
Seatrade Maritime News
January 5, 2018
The Panama authorities have started the process of cancelling the registration of two vessels linked to trading with North Korea. ... measures to prevent the use of the Panamanian Ship Registry by companies and/or owners operated or controlled by the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (DPRK).
Business News Americas
January 4, 2018
This news article is one of hundreds published daily by Business News Americas about the commodities, markets, movements, companies, projects, economics and politics integral to the development of Latin America. Including news and insight from South America, Central America and the Caribbean,ÃÂ ...
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (blog)
December 27, 2017
Danish tax authorities also acquired a portion of the Panama Papers data from an unknown source and are investigating 320 companies and 500 to 600 ... In Bolivia, ICIJ partners unveiled last October the use of a Panamanian company by American businessman Jacob Ostreicher to do business in Bolivia.
The News Herald
December 18, 2017
“It's really hurt a lot of companies,” said Justin Wilson, owner of the long-time beach taxi business Beach Boys Shuttle. ... in the city limits of Panama City Beach on January 1st, then your permit needs to be updated by December 31st,” an email from the police department to taxi company owners on Nov.
Times of Malta
December 17, 2017
He agreed this month with an EU decision to blacklist Panama as a non-cooperative jurisdiction, one year after his cabinet colleague Konrad Mizzi was caught with a secret company there, along with the Prime Minister's chief of staff, Keith Schembri. Investigations by the FIAU have indicated that theÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 15, 2017
Companies across the EU will be forced to disclose their true owners under new legislation prompted by the release of the Panama Papers. Anti-corruption campaigners applauded the agreement as a major step in the fight against tax evasion and money laundering, but expressed disappointment thatÃÂ ...
The News Herald
December 13, 2017
PANAMA CITY — Effective Jan. 1, local law firm Harrison Sale McCloy Attorneys at Law is merging with Alabama-based Hand Arendall LLC to form Hand Arendall Harrison Sale LLC. The combined firm will employ about 85 lawyers, with Alabama offices in Mobile, Birmingham, Fairhope and Athens andÃÂ ...
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