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 MoreEuropean Union Alternative Investment Fund Directive : The Cayman Islands Issued on behalf of Cayman Finance December 5, 2010 Dear Monsieur Gauzes, Cayman Finance represents the financial service industry in the Cayman Islands. I appreciate that you are no doubt
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 MoreCaptive Review Magazine, October 2010 The captive insurance industry continues as one of Cayman’s quiet success stories. Still ranked number two in the global offshore standings, it epitomises the maxim “as number two we try harder” and continues to thrive.
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 MoreCayman Financial Review, Q2, 2010 In light of the readily verifiable standard setting advances made by the Cayman Islands with respect to all crimes anti-money laundering and tax transparency, a recent outburst from Senator Dorgan on the floor of the
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 MorePublished: The Sunday Times June 2010 It is a source of some regret to those of us operating the highly successful and transparent financial services industry in this outpost of the Empire, and who still remember the Motherland as the
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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.