Published 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
Read MoreFinancial Times 9 April, 2012 Sir, The announcement of the latest iteration of the European Union’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, with a two-week consultation period falling over Easter, should have set alarm bells ringing in Downing Street. This is
Read MoreFiction: The Cayman Islands serve as a “tax haven” where US companies and individuals can launder money and hide their assets. Fact: The Cayman Islands is not a bank secrecy jurisdiction; it is fully transparent. The Cayman Islands has a
Read MorePublished in Hedgeweek February 29, 2012 The Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) has reached 100 catastrophe bond programme and series listings, with a total face value of approximately USD8.5 billion. The CSX listed its first cat bond Ajax Re Ltd
Read MorePublished, Financial Times Monday 23 January, 2012 Sir, In her analysis of the relationship between the offshore fund and the onshore authorised manager (“It may be time to see ‘offshore’ off”, FTfm January 15), Pauline Skypala does nothing but perpetuate
Read MorePublished in IFC Review December 2011 With the network of Tax Information Exchange Agreements in the Cayman Islands well above the minimum OECD requirement and with that jurisdiction setting the example of proactive reporting under the European Union Savings Directive,
Read MorePublished, GFSnews.com Wednesday 23 November 2011 An alleged scandal about Cayman directors sitting on the boards of hundreds of companies overlooks the fact that investors just do not care, argues Anthony Travers, chairman of the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange, who
Read MoreOriginally published in IFC Review, October 2011 Linked by geography, the financial centres of the Caribbean (and we include here Bermuda and the Bahamas), in fact, started out on the path to their development for different reasons and each is
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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.