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The latest insights, views and industry developments from Prime Cap focusing on private client foreign exchange, corporate transaction services and international payment strategy.
BREXIT: What about currencies?
As far a currencies, payments, people and companies are concerned, each may be affected in the same and different ways simultaneously....
Buying property in London, but dealing with an overseas vendor?
Our client, the buyer, was referred to us by their conveyancing solicitor. The vendor in this sale is a corporate entity based in the...
Confirmed this quarter's sales forecast?What about setting the rate?
Many small businesses can accurately, if not precisely, calculate their projected sales in the nearer term...over the coming two months,...
High end finish, and margin to match.
Our client is a sole trading interior designer. Much of her time is spent developing her own properties in both London and South Africa,...
Swiss army knife of...currency.
Foreign exchange is a pretty boring subject. It is a fascinating job to have, but, the focus of the profession does not translate well...
Selling to foreign markets: 5 things to remember
1. UNLESS YOU HAVE FOREIGN CURRENCY EXPENSES, YOU’RE GOING TO NEED TO CONVERT YOUR FOREIGN CURRENCY REVENUE. We love the HSBC advert...
What are currency controls?
In order for a currency company to both ‘buy’ and ‘sell’ a currency we require three things: The first is a bank account to receive the...
Getting married overseas? How to: pay for it.
Our client is an executive at one of the worlds top accountancy firms. He and his fiance plan on marrying abroad. Since March of 2014...
How to: Send money to the UK.
If you are a private client who wants to use a foreign exchange company to convert a foreign currency into pounds sterling (GBP) and to...
What is a safe-haven (currency)?
‘Flight to safety’ and natty little phrases like it are bandied around frequently as a useful way of deflecting a question and as a means...
Value added: International Payroll for small global businesses.
At the begging of July 2016 we received this email from a prospective client introduced to us by one of their employees. The employee in...
How secure is a currency broker?
Short of some elaborate fraud (and there are some I shall describe that are just plain crafty), it is rather difficult to simply ‘lose’...
Buying property in London with US dollars...
At Prime Cap we talk a lot about the work we receive from the legal sector. We're very good at establishing relationships with...
4 reasons why you should pay your mortgage through an FX broker.
Unsure why, other than surmising that people don’t really understand the breadth of work the deliverable FX sector is capable of...
How to: approach buying in a different currency.
A private client from Germany (living in London) introduced to me by his London based solicitor once again justified our belief in the...
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