“Roman Abramovich cancelled plans to live in Switzerland after police warned of ‘links to money laundering and organised crime'”

Sep 27, 2018 | In the news

If you borrow £100 and don’t pay it back, prepare for the Wrath of the Titans to descend upon you. If you’re a big business and borrow a few £ms, the banks will fall over themselves to ‘restructure’ your debt if you get into trouble. Try to invest £2,000 into an ISA and you’ll have to jump through all sorts of hoops to prove you’re not a money-launderer. Buy a street of houses in Belgravia or, say, a football club and you’re cash is welcomed with open arms. Not the case, it seems, in the land of secret banking, numbered accounts, cuckoo clocks and Toblerone. Perhaps the times they are a changing’…

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“Apple versus the world”

Apple has just launched its first actual new product in quite a while, a virtual reality gizmo, and that is quite big news. What they do put out there is usually a big seller and makes still more big bucks.