Sharing Financial Information: The Cayman Story Worth Telling

Over the last 40 years, the Cayman Islands has matured into one of the world's most sophisticated and successful international financial centres, providing a competitive, effective, transparent, cost-efficient and tax-neutral platform for international capital flows underpinned by an environment of legal, political and economic stability.

Although the Cayman Islands has worked hard to secure its position as a fully co-operative and well-regulated jurisdiction, much to the annoyance of those of us who actually live and work in the islands and understand the regulatory environment, tired stories of shady deals and cloaks of conspiracy persist.

The reality on the ground in George Town is much more interesting and, I dare say, aspirational. Rather than being a dark hole in which shady deals fester and proliferate, the Cayman Islands' modern legal and regulatory framework shines a light on suspicious activity that sends proverbial rats scurrying.