Tag: Wayne Panton
MACI to collect own cash and offer registry deals
(CNS Business): The Marine Authority of the Cayman Islands will be able to offer discounts and package deals to clients as a result of an amendment to the merchant shipping law. A small change to the legislation which removes the shipping fees from government’s coercive revenue to entity revenue will allow the authority to keep […]
Minister cleans up problems in mutual funds law
(CNS Business): A requirement for non-resident mutual fund administrators on funds registered here to pay licensing fees and file returns has been removed from the 2012 Mutual Funds law. In what Financial Services Minister Wayne Panton described as a “clean-up exercise†he said that the requirement in the law was not feasible and the industry […]
Blacklisting brief but impact unknown
(CNS Business): Praising Financial Services Minister Wayne Panton for his urgent response to the brief blacklisting of the Cayman Islands by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Cayman Finance CEO Gonzalo Jalles said the impact on the jurisdiction’s reputation may never be known. The list was published by the FCA on 18 July in response to […]
UK watchdog backtracks on blacklist
(CNS Business): In a complete about-face following its initial blacklisting of the Cayman Islands and subsequent refusal to remove the jurisdiction from its list a ‘High Risk Countries’, the Financial Conduct Authority, which regulates the UK’s financial services industry, has confirmed that the list has been removed from its website and that it does not […]
Cayman government ‘astounded’ by blacklisting
(CNS Business): The minister for financial services has said the decision by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority to place the Cayman Islands on its high risk countries list, as reported by CNS Business on Thursday, defies logic. Astounded by the decision, Wayne Panton told CNS Business Thursday that government had already written to the FCA […]
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