Letter to the Financial Times 7th April 2016. Sir, Much as Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour party leader, may secretly admire Lord Palmerston, sending a gunboat to the Cayman Islands is constitutionally impermissible (“Cameron accused of backing down on tax havens”,
Read MoreAnthony Travers as a guest on BBC Radio 4 “The Bottom Line : Tax Avoidance” March 3rd 2016 The original broadcast can be seen on the BBC website here
Read MoreLetter to the Financial Times 4th December 2015. Sir, If those briefing David Cameron were to pay even cursory attention to the statistical and factual evidence of the past decade, he would be less likely to tilt at the windmill
Read MoreObservers of Offshore Financial Centres will know that post 2008 they have been weathering a perfect storm. Firstly, reduced transactional flows, simply because there is less money available for structured finance and investment generally. Download the PDF to read the
Read MoreSummary The CIMA paper on proposed corporate governance expresses the intention that it will “enhance and clarify corporate governance standards and provide greater transparency in the financial services market”. The expression “transparency” carries no particular meaning and so the question
Read MoreThe Guardian Sunday 23 September 2012 Dear Sir, Your article perpetuates a heresy that obfuscates any true understanding of the relevant issues. If by it you meant to say that to boost domestic UK productivity, tax rates should be lowered
Read MorePublished in IeyeNews 26 July, 2012 The significance for the Cayman Islands and particularly the financial services industry goes far beyond the $50 million intended to be raised. The confidence placed by investors in the tax-free status of the Cayman
Read MorePublished in IFC Review 6 June 2012 Whilst it is recognised that Mr Robert Morgenthau’s career as New York Attorney General was both long and distinguished, it had been hoped by many observers that his views of offshore financial centres
Read MoreNew York Times May 14, 2012 Page A22 of the New York edition To the Editor: Re “These Islands Aren’t Just a Shelter From Taxes,” by Robert M. Morgenthau (Sunday Review, May 6): As he did during a long and
Read MoreOriginally Published in Cititrust EDGE E-magazine May 2012 Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the debate concerning the offshore financial jurisdictions, specifically the British Overseas Territories and the Crown Dependencies, is the extent to which representatives of the “high tax
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Anthony Travers, OBE, is the Chairman of the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange, former Chairman of Cayman Finance and former President of the Cayman Islands Law Society.
Having qualified at Clifford –Turner in 1975, he spent his thirty year legal career years with leading offshore law firm Maples and Calder where he served as Senior Partner and a Managing Partner for over twenty years both in Cayman and in various foreign offices that he established for the firm.