Bahamas placed on UK’s money laundering watchlist
By: Pedro Gonçalves From International Investment The UK has added the Bahamas to its money laundering watchlist, with the HM Treasury now requiring firms to put special procedures in place when dealing with Bahamian resident entities and clients. The British…
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Sir Ronald Sanders: EU and OECD have Caribbean on the ropes again
By Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 WASHINGTON, United States, Thursday August 2, 2018 – The financial services sector of Caribbean jurisdictions, and other parts of the developing world, have been under continuous assault by the European Union (EU) and the Organization…
NEVIS: Premier Mark Brantley sets the record straight
From OECS Monday, July 16, 2018 — The Premier and Minister of Finance of Nevis, the Honourable Mark Brantley, has expressed deep concern about a misleading and grossly inaccurate article carried in the UK’s Guardian newspaper on 12th July under…
Cayman Islands Minister Rivers continues EU engagement, discusses tax matters in Brussels
Minister for Financial Services, the Hon. Tara Rivers, will be in Brussels for the week of 20 May, during which she will have meetings with EU officials, and speak on two panels that include OECD and EU participants. This will be…
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Cayman Finance responds to vote by U.K. House of Commons to disregard the Cayman Islands’ leadership on transparency and verified ownership standards
Jude Scott, CEO of Cayman Finance, issued the following statement about a vote by the U.K. House of Commons to amend the proposed Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill to require public ownership registers in the Cayman Islands and other British…
Anthony Travers: The EU and the ‘new 21st century colonialism’
By: Anthony Travers, OBE, Travers Thorp Alberga |From International Investment Responding to public and media pressure brought on by the so-called Panama and Paradise papers exposés, the European Union has been compiling, tweaking and talking for months about its “blacklist”…
Tax revenues in Latin America and the Caribbean below the OECD average
From Chartered Accountants Ireland Tax revenues in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) dipped in 2016, falling further behind the average OECD country levels. That’s according to a recent report which the OECD contributed to on tax statistics in Latin…
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Sir Ronald Sanders: The OECD: A robust response required
By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the US and the OAS. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and at Massey College in…
Tax havens and U.S top list of foreign countries with most investments in Israel
By Hagai Amit From Haaretz Israel has the highest rate of foreign investment relative to gross domestic product, according to a report by the Finance Ministry’s chief economist The United States leads the list of foreign countries with the most…
Isle of Man complies with international standards
From IOM Today The Isle of Man’s critics ignore the great progress it has made in keeping its business above board. Last week the island received a ringing endorsement from the OECD. We have retained the top ’compliant’ rating by…
