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Katina Hristova

Katina Hristova is the editor of Finance Monthly magazine.

Articles by Katina Hristova

10 tax saving tips that won’t get you or your adviser in trouble with the taxman

4th January 2017
From 1 January 2017, those advisers, lawyers, bankers and accountants who help their clients evade tax will be the subject of new sanctions. However, for the vast majority of law abiding savers and investors, there are lots of simple, blue chip ways to save tax, without upsetting your tax inspector. Danny Cox, Chartered Financial Planner, […]
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What does 2017 hold in store for UK property investors?

21st December 2016
Jean Liggett, CEO of visionary property investment consultancy, Properties of the World, has revealed her predictions for the UK property market in 2017. Celebrating 5 years of experience selling investment properties, she has identified the key trends we are likely to see next year. Liggett comments, "The dual impact of Brexit and tax changes in the UK […]
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Linium Opens London Office to Expand Financial Services Consulting Expertise into the European Market

14th December 2016
Linium, a world-class provider of business services that empower the entire enterprise, today signaled its expansion into the European market with the opening of its newest office in London. With a strategic concentration on providing financial services consulting, the new location enables Linium to assist European companies in addressing a host of timely financial issues, […]
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2017 global property market predictions – insights from the experts

9th December 2016
2016 has been quite a year for global property markets. China’s slowdown, the impeachment of Brazil’s president, the Brexit referendum in the UK and the US presidential election have all contributed to a rather tumultuous year. Will property markets fare any better in 2017? And where precisely are the hotspots that bear watching as the […]
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Pension Protection Fund annual update on UK pension schemes

8th December 2016
UK pensions still facing a £779.9 billion deficit (end March 2016, full buyout basis) Investment in UK companies continues to decline, now below 7% of scheme assets, Special contributions by employers cost £10.5 billion in the first half of 2016 Active scheme membership falls below 1.5 million The Pension Protection Fund has today published its […]
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Co-operation Agreement between the Financial Conduct Authority and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority

7th December 2016
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) have entered into a Co-operation Agreement (Agreement) to foster collaboration between the two regulatory authorities in promoting financial innovation. According to the Agreement, the FCA and the HKMA will closely collaborate on a number of initiatives such as referrals of innovative firms, joint […]
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Financial Services Sector Makes its Highest Recorded Tax Contribution

6th December 2016
New figures published by City of London Corporation show that the total tax contribution for the financial services sector reached £71.4 billion in the year to 31st March 2016. This was a 7.4% increase on the previous year’s figures and the highest in the nine years that the report has been produced. The contribution, which […]
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Xero and Apple Pay + Stripe help customers get paid 80% faster

5th December 2016
Xero  today announced the integration of Apple Pay through Stripe, making it even faster and easier for customers to get paid. Xero’s 862,000 subscribers can now offer their customers the ability to view and pay an invoice using Apple Pay through Stripe.  Invoices paid with a payment service get paid almost 80 per cent faster […]
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Eseye launches breakthrough in IoT security with Amazon Web Services

2nd December 2016
Eseye and Amazon Web Services  announced the launch of a breakthrough in IoT Security, AnyNet Secure™. Eseye, a leading global cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity provider for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, saw the culmination of many months working with AWS at the global corporation’s Re:Invent convention in Las Vegas. Demonstrated live onstage, the new Eseye […]
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Investing in an uncertain world

31st January 2017
2016 will go down in history as a year that defied expectations. Summer saw the electorate in the UK send stock markets tumbling with an unexpected vote to leave the EU. On the other side of the Atlantic meanwhile, political outlier Donald Trump ran a campaign which divided the US and, against all the odds, […]
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EC proposals on complex VAT need to be simple in both principle and practice, says ICAEW

1st December 2016
Commenting on the European Commission proposal to simplify rules on value-added tax (VAT) for cross-border e-commerce, Ian Young, ICAEW International Tax Manager, said: “According to a forthcoming ICAEW-EGIAN survey of more than 170 tax professionals from 29 European countries, which is the first of its kind, VAT is seen as the single most complex tax […]
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RBS fails stress test

30th November 2016
Royal Bank of Scotland has failed the 2016 Bank of England banking stress test. However the regulator said it has approved remedial action that RBS is already taking to improve its resilience to financial shocks. In aggregate the Bank of England said the UK banking system is currently capitalised to support the UK in a […]
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