Offshore and Well Off the Mark – The Facts and the Fantasy Originally published by IFC Review Download PDF
Read MorePublished in The Cayman Reporter – October 10th 2016 Download PDF
Read MoreThe Cayman Islands is fortunate to have a sustained and stentorian voice proclaiming, anytime and anywhere, the virtues of our jurisdiction’s financial services sector. Download PDF
Read MoreExtracts from the address made by Anthony Travers at the IBC Transcontinental Trust Forum in Geneva, Switzerland on 15th June 2016 responding to the mischaracterisation of the Cayman Islands Finacial Services Industry suggested by BBC Producer, Jacques Peretti, in his
Read MoreLetter to the Financial Times 13th May 2016. Sir, Toby Quantrill of Christian Aid (“UK can take lead on regulation of tax havens”, May 12) seeks to perpetuate an unsustainable myth. A cursory review of the publicly available information would
Read MoreBy Anthony Travers OBE, Senior Partner, Travers Thorp Alberga, Cayman Islands So excited are the left-wing media at the apparent ease with which the legitimate right to privacy can now be breached, that absent from the extensive coverage of the
Read MoreLetter 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 MoreLetter to the Financial Times 10th February 2015 Miliband is hopelessly out of touch on tax avoidance. Reprinted from the Financial Times Letters Section 10.2.2015 Sir, with his comments on the role of the overseas territories, Labour leader Ed Miliband
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
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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.