Finance
Ex CIMA compliance boss moves to FRA
(CNS Business): Robert James Berry, the former head of compliance at the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, has been appointed as the director of the Financial Reporting Authority (FRA). Berry, an anti-money laundering expert who worked in private banking before he joined CIMA, has move to the government unit responsible for investigating suspicious activity in the […]
CIG ready to assist Canada’s tax evasion probe
(CNS Business): As Cayman National finds itself embroiled in another international tax evasion investigation, this time regarding the actions of clients of two Canadian banks, the Cayman government says it is ready and willing to assist Canada in uncovering where its citizens may have used offshore accounts to avoid tax obligations at home.
Deputy takes over as compliance boss at CIMA
(CNS Business): After ten years as deputy, Audrey Roe has been promoted to head of the Compliance Division at the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. Now leading one of CIMA’s most important divisions, she has also assumed the role of money laundering reporting officer for the authority. With some thirty years financial sector experience, Roe will be […]
Travers takes aim at ‘delusional thinking’ on offshore finance
(CNS Business): Anthony Travers, a former Chairman of the Board of Cayman Finance, took aim at critics of low-tax jurisdictions as he joined documentary film maker, Jaques Perretti, on a panel at the IBC Transcontinental Trust Forum in Geneva last month looking at the media portrayal of the offshore industry. Dismissing those critics as “delusional”, Travers […]
UK PM signals tax haven clampdown
(CNS Business): Just as the Cayman Islands government was feeling confident that its relationship with the British government was better than ever and the UK was beginning to understand and accept the role of the offshore financial sector, the new prime minister, Theresa May, is believed to have ordered a clampdown on the use of […]
DMS expands Dublin operations
(CNS Business): After humble begins with just one staff member, local businessman Don Seymour has expanded his firm’s Irish operations and is planning to hire 50 new staff, doubling the workforce at DMS in Dublin. As well as the Cayman HQ DMS also has offices in New York, São Paulo, London, Luxembourg and Hong Kong […]
New company law will boost business, says Scott
(CNS Business): The CEO of Cayman Finance, Jude Scott, said the Cayman Islands financial services industry has welcomed the new limited liability company (LLC) regime, which came into effect just three weeks ago with the implementation of the law and the publication of underlying related regulations. “This new LLC law will give our industry a […]
Butterfield Bank in black with positive outlook
(CNS Business): The Chief Executive Officer at Butterfield Bank, Michael Collins, said the bank was continuing to see the positive financial impact of acquisitions in trust and wealth management in its offshore markets such as Bermuda, Cayman and Guernsey, as the Bermuda-based bank released its second quarter results. “As we focus on jurisdictions in which […]
Fugitive’s company closed down over $1.69M debt
(CNS Business): A company owned by a man wanted by local police for a violent crime has been wound up by the Grand Court after a creditor in the British Virgin Islands tried and failed for more than six months to get back almost $1.7 million he had on account with B & C Capital […]
DMS caught up in class action against client
(CNS Business): Cayman-based financial services firm, DMS, has been sucked up into a class action suit against a former BVI company accused of fraud which was once one of its clients. More than 300 investors who collectively had more than $50 million invested in CWM Limited, a foreign exchange trading firm incorporated in BVI and […]
CIMA finally fills top insurance post
(CNS Business): After several years without a leader at the helm of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority’s insurance division, the regulator has finally filled the post. Following an open competitive recruitment process Ruwan Jayasekera has been confirmed as the new head of the department. Given the importance of the growing sector, there had been mounting […]
Cayman snubbed by ESMA over funds passport
(CNS Business): The Cayman Islands is facing yet another challenge to its financial services sector after the long anticipated decision from the European Securities and Markets Authority Tuesday not to recommend that the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) passport to non-EU alternative investment fund managers be extended to the jurisdiction. ESMA said it “could […]
False start for mammoth Saudi fraud trial
(CNS Business): The biggest ever trial to be held in the Cayman Islands got off to a false start yesterday, with proceedings adjourned at the start of the first day due to what the chief justice Smellie called “housekeeping issues”, but with the courts blocking off the next seven months to deal with the liquidation […]
Cayman fund rivals could see post-Brexit boost
(CNS Business): As the fallout from the Brexit vote turns to the complexities of engineering the UK’s exit from Europe, there is a real possibility that fund managers might move their headquarters from the UK to remain in the EU, and with Luxembourg and Dublin seen as viable alternatives, these fund domiciles could continue to […]
Increase in imports signals economic recovery
(CNS Business): Finance and Economic Development Minister Marco Archer has said that the near 12% increase in imported goods at the beginning of this year compared to the previous year was a sign of the economic recovery in the Cayman Islands. According to figures released by the Economics and Statistics Office (ESO), the country’s merchandise imports […]
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