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As the Blockchain Revolution Moves Offshore, What are the Challenges?

Blockchain has been widely touted as the most significant technology of the last 20 years, with the potential to revolutionise the financial services industry across a range of applications, from crypto-currencies to smart contracts, to fully automated clearing and settlements systems for payments....

Key features of ILS funds in Bermuda

Bermuda is a significant player in the reinsurance market and its position in this market has led to the growth of the use of funds as the funding vehicles for many reinsurance companies. The use of funds in this space is a result of the demand for such products by major institutional investors wishing to invest into the reinsurance sector but via a fund structure with which they were familiar....

Offshore deal value through June 2018 nearly matches 2017 total

The latest edition of Offshore-i, an Appleby report that provides data and insight on merger and acquisition activity in the major offshore financial centres, focuses on transactions announced over the first half of 2018. Following a similar pattern to most of the world’s regions, the volume of offshore deals has fallen back from levels seen in the latter half of 2017, while value is on the rise.....

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15 February 2019 Richard Sheldon

More changes to Jersey’s Family Friendly Laws proposed

Following on from the changes that were introduced last September, proposed amendments have been lodged with the States Assembly to further extend Jersey’s family friendly legislation to bring it much closer and in some respects beyond the standards in the UK....
14 February 2019 Fiona Chan, Prabha Sasidharan, Alison Thomson

Fintech: Offshore regulations and trends in Asia

Financial technology, or fintech, in the broadest sense of the word involves the use of software in the provision of banking and financial services. The transformative nature of the fintech sector is the manner in which fintech companies use financial technology to disrupt the way traditional financial companies do business....
12 February 2019 Shana Simmonds and Fiona Chan

Economic substance requirements in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands

Each of the governments of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and the Cayman Islands has passed legislation that will require certain entities carrying on “relevant activities” to have “economic substance” in Bermuda, the BVI and the Cayman Islands, respectively....
12 February 2019 Charlotte Yeung

Back-to-back redemptions in Cayman master-feeder fund structures

The Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (the “Court”) has recently handed down a decision on the issue of redemption process that has significance for Cayman Islands’ master-feeder structures....
12 February 2019 Alison Thomson

Quarterly technology and innovation regulatory update: February 2019

First published as part of the Appleby Asia Alert. The Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands are three of the world’s largest offshore jurisdictions. All three have ambitions to be global technology hubs and have taken steps in recent years to become attractive destinations for technology entrepreneurs, particularly those looking to launch, host and develop digital assets using blockchain technology....