December 16, 2010 The Hon. Bernard Sanders 332 Senate Dirksen Office Building Washington, DC 20510 CC: Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Federal Reserve Dear Senator Sanders: In your December 6 letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, you incorrectly label the
Read MoreLondon, December 8, 2010: One of the world’s leading experts on offshore structuring has lashed out at the ignorance of UK politicians and a group of activists he calls the “Tax Taliban.” Anthony Travers, OBE, Chairman of Cayman Finance was
Read MoreLondon, December 8, 2010: One of the world’s leading experts on offshore structuring has lashed out at the ignorance of UK politicians and a group of activists he calls the “Tax Taliban.” Anthony Travers, OBE, Chairman of Cayman Finance was
Read MoreSpeech at Cayman Captives Forum, Insurance Managers Association of Cayman 1 December 2010 What I am going to talk about this morning is the way in which the macroeconomic changes and the onshore political focus post the financial crisis of
Read MoreThe Hon Emma Reynolds MP 92A Stafford Road, WolverhamptonWV10 6AN 11th November 2010 Dear Madam, I noticed that your question addressed to the Minister for the Overseas Territories on 9 November 2010 perpetuates a number of fundamental misconceptions concerning the
Read MoreWashington Times Op-Ed, Wednesday, June 17, 2009 The Cayman Islands are a fully transparent tax jurisdiction. Statements to the contrary in the United States are incorrect. The Caymans direct international capital flows in a tax-efficient manner. We provide a tax-neutral
Read MoreAugust 2010 There is a good deal of comment these days about the role of offshore financial centres in the global economy. But what comes across loud and clear is the high level of misunderstanding not only outside of the
Read More29 July 2010 Dear Sir, In the article “Two Cities and Other Tales of How Financial Centres Flourish or Fail” (27 July 2010), Mr. Van der Kamp asserts that the Cayman Islands’ financial services industry has a ‘stink of criminality’
Read MorePublished in Offshore Investment, June 23, 2010 Whilst the taxpaying public and corporations in many G20 jurisdictions are battling the effects of their increased taxation, in fact international capital is starting flow once again; hedge fund returns are up-ticking. Against
Read MoreJune 7, 2010 The Hon. Byron Dorgan 322 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Dorgan, Recently, in the course of debate over financial regulatory reform, you made a comment about the Cayman Islands financial industry which requires
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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.