Thinking About Financial Consequences

Over the last couple of months I have been considering Gibraltar's place in today's offshore – or "international" – finance centre pecking order. This has been no simple task for whilst each centre boasts its own particular advantages, it is equally easy to identify disadvantages in using one centre over another.

In comparing Gibraltar's position vis-à-vis its competitors, readers may recall that I considered areas such as legislation and regulation by the relevant authorities combined with infrastructure and qualified, experienced personnel and so on. In other words, local factors that, taken together, led me to the – perhaps inevitable but nevertheless heart felt – conclusion that Gibraltar compares favourably to most other similar centres worldwide