Interactive Brokers, the Greenwich, Connecticut-based online discount brokerage firm, has announced it has been authorized to expand its operations into Dublin, where it says it looks to establish a "new Western European base...in response to Brexit and rapid regional growth."

When news emerged earlier this month that Charles Schwab Corp., the major, NYSE-listed U.S. broker, bank and asset custodian, had been contacting clients in Europe to tell them that they needed to take certain actions with respect to their accounts before the end of the year, many American expat investors wondered whether other firms would soon be following Schwab’s lead...

(Updated 11/07/2019) Charles Schwab Corp., the San Francisco-based, NYSE-listed financial services giant that is understood to have a significant client base of Americans resident outside of the U.S., has been contacting clients in Europe to inform them that they must take certain actions with respect to their accounts before the end of the year. 

American financial services executives currently living in London, who have been told they're being transferred to their company's outpost in Dublin in response to the UK's planned departure from the European Union, this week have received some unwelcome news: Ireland's capital city has just entered the top five most expensive locations in Europe in which to rent a property, according to new research.

News that the U.S. dollar was again spiking against the British pound today, on news that Prime Minister Theresa May's draft Brexit deal was coming in for criticism and had prompted two cabinet ministers to quit, was seen as adding fresh complexity to the difficulties American expatriates looking to buy U.K. properties were already struggling with, mortgage industry sources told the American Expat Financial News Journal.