The Malta Option is "in-the-Money"

Unsurprising tradition

Fund managers don't like surprises. And it is this aversion to anything unknown that has caused the more "traditional" financial centres like London, Luxembourg, Ireland and Switzerland to boom as financial centres towards which fund managers have gravitated and established themselves over the past 20-odd years. However there is nothing quite like a financial crisis and increased tax burdens in many of these European financial centres to provoke fresh thinking and new solutions to address these challenges.

Enter Malta. An island sovereign state situated just 93 km south of Italy, a full Member State of the European Union since 2004 and part of the Eurozone since 2008. The island's ambitions to establish itself as a leading financial centre of excellence find their origin in the early 1990s at which time volumes of financial legislation were enacted to build what is now the backbone of a modern, forward-looking and robust legal system which