01/04/2014
Almost all of the 20 hedge funds that now own 30 per cent of the battered Co-op Bank have channelled their investments through offshore tax havens.
01/02/2014
Kirkconnell says “Cayman’s Special Economic zone has made it both easy and cost-effective for companies to set up a genuine physical presence in the Cayman Islands to conduct business with North and Latin American companies on the same time zo
12/31/2013
Speaking with Tribune Business, Mr Rolle noted that efforts to entice foreign direct investment to this nation were beginning to bear fruit.
12/31/2013
Nick Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx, was one of the early Wall Street analysts to take a serious look at bitcoin back in February. To wrap up 2013, he examined what he sees as 11 myths surrounding the subject.
12/27/2013
Under the theme “Survival of the Fittest”, IBFS will explore how The Bahamas continues to evolve as a preeminent international centre for business and finance, adapting to the ever-changing regulatory environment as necessary.
12/27/2013
Innovation Nation – IBFS Featured Session
12/24/2013
Is paper money headed for obsolescence, swept aside by the meteoric rise of Bitcoin?
12/24/2013
Some critics dismiss it as an unregulated scam.
12/24/2013
Moody’s also said the country’s credit outlook remained negative.
12/23/2013
The upcoming 12 to 18 months will prove pivotal in determining the implementation of the AIFMD
12/20/2013
Equity markets have experienced relief rallies on news of the Fed decision to wind down the asset buying programme by an initial $10bn dropping from $85bn per months to $75bn
12/17/2013
Having emerged from the global recession and its aftermath battered, but not beaten, the real estate private equity sector is finally back on a solid path toward growth, according to Global market outlook: Trends in real estate private equity, a report pu
12/15/2013
Time to worry about Cayman Islands accounts?
The Cayman Islands long has been an offshore tax haven for many Floridians.
12/15/2013
Why Bitcoin Will Never Be a Currency—in 2 Charts
Bitcoin could be Paypal 2.0, but it will never be the dollar 2.0. Not when prices would have had to fall 98.5 percent the past year if they'd been set in terms of Bitcoin.
12/14/2013
Bitcoin clones set to kill digital currency?
Citibank’s analyst believes that the market is likely to end up with a plethora of “bitcoin lookalikes with little to choose between them, so pricing becomes very difficult.
12/11/2013
Gonzalo Jalles, CEO of Cayman Finance, has called on government to do more to promote and defend the Cayman Islands financial services industry.
12/11/2013
Guernsey Finance plans to spend the sum over the next three years supporting the development of new markets for the Island’s finance industry.
12/09/2013
The Bahamas and China established diplomatic relations16 years ago and have engaged in a number of technical and cultural agreements beneficial to both countries.
12/09/2013
Cayman Islands Finance Minister Marco Archer said Friday that the local government must consider privatization of at least some of its existing services as it struggles to bring public sector finances within UK-required limits by 2016.
12/09/2013
Overall, 49% thought that no regulator had succeeded in this respect, with a majority of respondents in the US and the UK holding this view.