On The Register January-June 2014

Welcome to the fifth edition of On the Register, an Appleby report that provides data and insight about company incorporation activity going on in the major offshore jurisdictions around the globe, where we do the majority of our business.

This report looks primarily at data for the first six months of 2014. There are a number of key themes that emerge from the statistics outlined on these pages. In particular:

New companies joining the offshore registers

• The numbers of new offshore companies being registered has increased by 4% across the jurisdictions monitored, when compared to the previous period. At the same time, onshore comparator, the UK, picked up the pace with a 16% increase on the previous period, double that of counterpart Hong Kong.