International and Emerging Markets Blog
Thursday, January 05, 2012
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Thought leadership
| Tags: business,
report,
growth,
UK,
survey,
international,
insight,
success,
value,
advice,
expansion,
sales,
International Track 100,
overseas,
Grow Global,
foreign
How have the UK’s most successful companies for fastest-growing international sales achieved their overseas success? Our latest report discovered what these companies have in common and how they have driven overseas sales and built real value.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
| Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
China
| Tags: China,
UK,
infrastructure,
trade,
regulation,
Nick Farr,
London,
financing,
Chinese,
banks,
caps,
renminbi,
deregulation,
Infrastructure Summit,
subsidiaries
As Chinese banks gain a foothold in the City, this is creating opportunities for financing UK infrastructure and regeneration projects, says Nick Farr, Head of Grant Thornton’s China Britain Services Group.
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Monday, October 03, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
Interviews
| Tags: business,
tax,
Grant Thornton,
entrepreneurs,
HNWIs,
UK,
South Asia Group,
tax planning,
insight,
interview,
staff,
Meet our experts,
profile,
Q&A,
Harish Dass,
High net worth individuals,
entrepreneurial services,
Entrepreneurial Services Tax Team
“Our relationship with a client is one of ‘the trusted adviser’,” says Tax Manager Harish Dass. Which means busy entrepreneurs can get on with their business without having to consult a whole team of advisers. Here Harish talks about his work with UK entrepreneurs, many of which are of South Asian origin, and why tax should be top of everyone’s’ agenda right now.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
| Posted by: Nick Farr
Categories:
China
| Tags: business,
China,
M&A,
growth,
UK,
infrastructure,
retail,
technology,
mergers and acquisitions,
sectors,
Five Year Plan,
opportunities,
cost
What’s your five-year plan for doing business in China? Following the ratification of China’s 12th Five-Year Plan in March 2011, we predict the five best opportunities for UK business with operations or interest in China.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
| Posted by: Nick Farr
Categories:
China ,
Thought leadership
| Tags: tax,
investment,
China,
UK,
investors,
funding,
subsidiary,
Hong Kong,
foreign investment,
regulatory,
holding companies,
supply chain,
entity,
structures,
employees,
staffing,
inbound,
inward,
foreign exchange
What do investors and businesses from China (and other emerging economies) need to know before investing or setting up in the UK? Our quick guide covers the main issues: from choice of entity and location, to employment considerations, regulatory issues and foreign exchange controls.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
| Posted by: Nick Farr
Categories:
China ,
Thought leadership
| Tags: business,
tax,
China,
UK,
Hong Kong,
holding companies,
double taxation agreement,
tax treaty,
Wen Jiabao,
DTA
During Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s recent visit to the UK, a new double taxation agreement (DTA) between the UK and China was signed. Find out what the new tax treaty involves, when it is set to start and what actions you should be taking.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Interviews
| Tags: business,
Grant Thornton,
entrepreneurs,
China,
UK,
aim,
insight,
interview,
audit,
staff,
people,
Meet our experts,
profile,
Q&A,
China Britain Services Group,
Norman Armstrong,
assurance
A phone call from China in 2006 led Norman Armstrong to work on a six-month project to help a Chinese company list on AIM. He has been helping companies and entrepreneurs achieve their international ambitions ever since.
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 13
| Tags: India,
India Watch,
UK,
South Asia Group,
AIM,
Capital Markets,
Hugh Sandeman,
liquidity,
PLUS,
main market,
raising finance
One of the first things that investors ask Indian companies planning a London listing is how this fits with their financial strategy. They’re not expecting a single answer to this question: it can make just as much sense for a domestic Indian power generator to go offshore and IPO in London, as it can for an Indian company with global ambitions and operations. But what investors do want to hear is that the Indian promoter is going to put his or her full confidence in the long term in the London market as the vehicle for growing their company.
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| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 13
| Tags: India,
economy,
China,
India Watch,
growth,
UK,
South Asia Group,
Anuj Chande,
Capital Markets,
inflation,
Reserve Bank of India,
RBI
This halfway point in the calendar year provides us with an ideal opportunity to review India’s economic and political status over the past few months and also to look forward to what the remainder of the year might have in store.
There seems no better item to start with then what has now become a fairly routine announcement from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Last month the RBI raised interest rates for the 10th time in 18 months. The repurchase rate was raised by 25 basis points to 7.5% as the RBI continued to try and curb inflationary pressure. As with the first quarter of the year, wholesale-price inflation (around 9.1% year-on-year to the end of May) continues to be fuelled by high oil prices and strong domestic demand.
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| Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
India,
India Watch Issue 13
| Tags: India,
China,
India Watch,
M&A,
UK,
mergers,
acquisitions,
sector,
Competition Commission of India,
value, deals
Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty in certain European regions, as well as moderating growth and demand, increasing interest rates, inflation issues and the merger control provisions being notified by the Competition Commission of India, M&A activity in India in the first half of 2011 has resiliently kept pace with 2010 levels, in line with our expectations.
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