Are there any sources of wealth you cannot accept?
We cannot accept any deposits from clients whose wealth derives from any of the following:
- Production or trade in any product or activity deemed illegal under host country laws or regulations or international conventions or agreements including, without limitation, host country requirements related to environmental, health and safety and labour aspects;
- Production or trade in weapons or munitions;
- Quarries, mining or processing of metal ores or coal;
- Giving or receiving of gifts that could be interpreted as intending to influence business decisions;
- Production or trade in tobacco;
- Trade in wildlife or wildlife products regulated under CITES;
- Production or trade in radioactive materials;
- Commercial logging operations or purchase of logging equipment for use in primary tropical moist forest;
- Production or trade in pharmaceuticals subject to international phase outs or bans;
- Production or trade in pesticides/herbicides subject to international phase outs or bans;
- Drift net fishing in the marine environment using nets in excess of 2.5km in length;
- Production or activities involving harmful or exploitative forms of forced labour/harmful child labour;
- Production or trade in ozone-depleting substances subject to international phase outs;
- Production or trade in wood or other forestry products from unmanaged forests;
- Production, trade, storage or transport of significant volumes of hazardous chemicals, or commercial scale usage of hazardous chemicals;
- Any business relating to illegal pornography or prostitution;
- Abusing confidential or material non-public information;
- Trading of animal fur, bones or ivory;
- Diamond drilling without Kimberly certification;
- Indecent or obscene material, including child pornography;
- Trading of fireworks or explosives or nuclear weapons;
- Drug trafficking, including trade in chemicals which may be used to manufacture synthetic drugs;
- Human body parts or pathogens;
- Online or offline gambling, betting, casinos, prize draws, gift cards or lottery/scratch cards;
- Bearer shares and bonds;
- Donations or charitable grants (though we can work with independent schools regarding Fees in Advance);
- Money exchange dealers or money service businesses;
- Cash pooling structures; and
- Cryptocurrency or derivatives thereof.