Published 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 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 MorePublished in IFC Review, March 2012 It is remarkable testimony as to the failure of the public relations campaigns of the offshore jurisdictions, and the Cayman Islands in particular, that of the 313 news items from around the world published
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 MoreIeyenews.com November 4, 2011 Anthony Travers would agree with Ezzard Miller about rolling over expatriates, but the North Side MLA cannot say how to replace the financial-service’s $275 million per year in government revenues. Nor can Mr Miller say, Mr
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
Read MoreIeyenews.com 9 September, 2011 “For a city without any natural resources, a non competitive immigration policy is a policy which contributes to our economic non competitiveness. This is a fight we can ill afford to lose”. This was not, as
Read MoreMay, 2011 A recent in development in European Court of Justice shone a thin beacon of sanity that, for a moment, bathed all financial centres in a positive glow. Hopefully, this will portend further similar developments and will thereby assist
Read MoreThe Lawyer 30 April 2001 “Time longer than rope” may describe the lackadaisical lifestyle of the Caribbean jurisdictions, but there has been nothing lackadaisical about the legislative response to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) initiatives. A June
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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.