As a leading jurisdiction for the domicile of captive insurance companies and, more recently, reinsurance companies (together "insurance vehicles"), the laws of the Cayman Islands have a ...

The Department of International Tax Cooperation ("DITC") has issued an industry advisory confirming that the Automatic Exchange of Information Portal ("AEOI Portal") has reopened with revised documentation.

Premier and Minister for Financial Services and Commerce, the Hon. André M. Ebanks MP, reinforced the Cayman Islands’ commitment to strong insurance supervision and international regulatory cooperation during recent engagements with insurance and reinsurance stakeholders in the United States.

Due to the dynamic nature of the insurance industry, insurers or reinsurers established in the Cayman Islands as Segregated Portfolio Companies might look to leverage the added risk...

Continuing the Cayman Islands' efforts to keep international stakeholders updated on the strength of our regulatory and commercial framework for financial services, the Deputy Premier, the Hon. André Ebanks MP is leading delegations to the UK and EU, and then to the US, during September.

The old saying that "Independent Directors are like parsley on a fish: technically they are there, but they are largely decorative" is now very much defunct in the context of the Cayman...

The release of the Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s Report on the International Reinsurance Landscape for U.S. Life & Annuities has provided a timely, independent affirmation of what many of us in the reinsurance market have observed: the Cayman Islands has become an indispensable and legitimate international reinsurance domicile for U.S. life and annuity writers.

The MLRO may be the same person as the AMLCO, so long as the individual is competent and is able to perform both roles efficiently.

Members of our Insurance team recently attended [Re]Connect, the first ever dedicated reinsurance conference held in the Cayman Islands. No surprise, it was a great success...

The Cayman Islands has set an ambitious Q2 2025 deadline to submit its application for Qualified Jurisdiction Status to the NAIC, marking a pivotal moment in the jurisdiction's reinsurance evolution.

Segregated portfolio companies (SPC's) are frequently used in Cayman Islands (re)insurance structures. The defining feature of an SPC is that it offers statutory segregation...

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) issued 41 new international insurance licenses in 2023 – the largest number of licenses issued in a single year in more than a decade.

In this first of a series of pieces on reinsurance financing we break down the key components involved in financing transactions for Cayman Islands reinsurance companies.

Bermuda has established itself as a leading (re)insurance centre, which has one of the world's largest captive and insurance-linked securities ("ILS") markets.

The first dedicated reinsurance conference in the Cayman Islands was by every conceivable metric an incredible success.

Arguably the most notable takeaways from the [Re]Connect conference were the updates on the positive progress the Cayman Islands has made in its quest toward (hopefully) making a formal application to secure Qualified Jurisdiction (QJ) status with the NAIC.

The Cayman Islands has recently seen the passing of a number of laws to improve the Island's regulatory framework in support of the international financial system's integrity.

Cayman has long been a leading financial centre for both investment funds and captive insurance. However, it is now also flourishing as a dynamic jurisdiction of choice for reinsurance.

The Cayman Islands is positioning itself as a leading global reinsurance hub through regulatory evolution, private capital integration, and technological advancement. How is CIMA's principles-based framework adapting to emerging challenges like artificial intelligence, climate risk, and cross-border complexity while pursuing Qualified Jurisdiction status for enhanced US market access?

In recent years, the Cayman Islands has garnered significant attention as a burgeoning hub for offshore reinsurance and insurance ("re/insurance").