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Established in 1971, the Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) is the world's preeminent, fully electronic, offshore securities exchange, offering domestic and international issuers...

The support which legal services provide for international business and finance is crucial to the successful development of any jurisdiction. The legal profession in Bermuda assists...

The hardening of the insurance markets may have reduced the appetite for certain emerging risks but the increasing prevalence of so-called digital assets, including cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings, ...

Bermuda continues to be a preferred jurisdiction in which to establish and maintain family offices. Bermuda's regulatory regime carefully balances privacy with the objective of ensuring appropriate

Insurance-linked securities could be an alternative to traditional reinsurance, and Bermuda is the place to explore the possibilities, says Brad Adderley of Appleby.

A properly structured co-investment vehicle offers both the fund and its co-investors the ability to effectively manage identified investment opportunities.

Bermuda operates a highly integrated regulatory architecture under which the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) exercises consolidated oversight across insurance, banking, investment business and funds, trusts, corporate service providers, money services and digital asset activity.

Generally, under the Common Reporting Standard (CRS) investment managers and advisers are classified as ‘Investment Entities' and are ‘Reporting Financial Institutions' for CRS purposes.

The latest move by the European Union to address perceived harmful tax practices takes the form of imposing economic substance requirements on international financial centres (IFCs).

On 23 April 2018, judgment was handed down by the Privy Council in the long running dispute of Investec Trust (Guernsey) Limited and another v Glenalla and others.

Lawyers from our Bermuda, Cayman Islands and Jersey jurisdictions have contributed to Global Legal Insight's fourth edition guide to blockchain and cryptocurrency regulation.

On 1 April 2013 the UK’s Financial Services Authority was split into three separate entities: the Financial Conduct Authority, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Policy Committee. UK banks are still assessing this new "3 for 1" regulatory regime and a host of new financial services regulations.

Aviation finance, particularly aircraft leasing and aircraft lessor securitisation, are experiencing a boom on a global scale.

On 18 February 2020, the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) announced that Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands (BVI) had been moved to the ‘whitelist'