Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, 3 October 2008 Alan Greenspan first identified the important role of the offshore financial center and the dissemination of risk in his speech to the Bank of England in 1998. In this respect he was prescient.
Read MoreLegal Week 10 March 2005 And the Oscar for the best result from an offshore initiative goes to… the Cayman Islands. Maybe it was the scene-stealing performance from the leader of government business in the hallowed halls of Whitehall. Maybe
Read MoreAugust 04, 2003 After several years of legislative changes to improve standards of transparency in the offshore financial centers–many of which have established regulatory frameworks that far exceed that applicable in most OECD jurisdictions –recognition of these improvements is long
Read More21 March 2003 The publication of the report “Towards a Level Playing Field”1 prepared by the influential international law firm, Stikeman Elliott, provides a welcome and timely opportunity to pause and analyse more objectively certain of the assumptions that underpin
Read MoreLegal Week 25 October 2001 After a rigorous three-year process, in July the Cayman Islands emerged with a clear understanding on the Organisation for Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) Harmful Tax Competition initiative, its zero tax regime intact, and its money
Read MoreThe Lawyer 28 May 2001 Where precisely do the Cayman Islands stand now that the dust has settled following the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) and the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering’s (FATF) supranational initiatives on
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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.