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Walkers BVI managing partner Matthew Cowman, accompanied by a range of industry peers, sits down with BVI Business and BVI Finance for a Financial Services Focus Group Discussion.

Lodewijk Van Setten, Senior Counsel in Walkers' BVI office, recently participated in a virtual roundtable discussion with others in the FinTech industry to discuss how algorithms and hardware...

When trusts in international financial centres are established, settlors will inevitably require a certain level of comfort by ensuring that certain critical powers are reserved by themselves...

The British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands are currently in dialog with the UK government on a number of issues related to the UK’s G8 economic agenda, including enhanced transparency and exchange of information for tax purposes.

This advisory summarises the key features of the Law and the Guidelines and their likely impact on closed-ended funds and their managers.

The ongoing Global Pandemic has presented financial challenges to certain industries, which have seen their markets eroded.

In this guide, Michael Gagie and Matthew Gilbert provide an overview of British Virgin Islands lending and secured finance law.

In the second episode of their Banking & Finance podcast series, Local Managing Partner Ellie Crespi (BVI) and Senior Associate Jo Hossack (Cayman Islands) take a seat on the Collas Crill sofa to discuss the differences between entities in the Cayman Islands and the BVI, ...

Approved managers are subject to light-touch regulation by the BVI FSC, and are out of scope for the BVI economic substance regime.

The British Virgin Islands is one of the world's leading international financial centres and is well known for its flexible commercial legislation and English-based legal system.

Our 2026 British Virgin Islands regulatory calendar is now available!

On 18 January 2024, the BVI Financial Services Commission, in accordance with regulatory requirements, published Circular 2 of 2024 to remind all regulated persons under various...

In this guide, Michael Gagie and Matthew Gilbert provide an overview on lending and secured finance law in the British Virgin Islands.

In this guide, Michael Gagie and Matthew Gilbert provide an overview of lending and secured finance law within the British Virgin Islands.

In this article Tim Clipstone and Michael Gagie discuss the popularity of the British Virgin Islands as the jurisdiction of choice for international business companies ..

As noted in an earlier update, the deadline for the registration of Cayman Islands Financial Institutions with the Cayman Islands Tax Information Authority was recently extended to 30 April 2015.

Further information about the BVIFARS Portal is available in this April 2015 Harneys update.

The British Virgin Islands financial services sector has demonstrated remarkable strength in early 2026, with new company incorporations surging 10% year-over-year to reach the highest first-quarter performance in four years. The jurisdiction's expanding ecosystem now encompasses over 362,000 active companies, growing fintech and virtual asset services, and more than 2,000 registered investment funds, signaling sustained global confidence in BVI structures for cross-border transactions.