Appleby has successfully assisted online forex trader, FIBO Group Ltd, in obtaining an investment business licence from the BVI Financial Services Commission to deal and arrange deals in investments under the Securities and Investment Business Act (SIBA).

Adding to our success at The Lawyer and HFM Awards, Harneys was privileged to win twice at the inaugural Africa Global Funds Awards held recently in Cape Town.

The British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (FSC) has recently recognised Asia-based Fusang Exchange Ltd as its first digital securities and asset exchange.

Harneys continues to provide a regular roundup of recent case notes from the British Virgin Islands Commercial Court.

Every company, which is required to file an annual return, must submit to its Registered Agent a return in the form, and containing the information specified in the Schedule to the Order.

The British Virgin Islands will implement its new beneficial ownership reporting regime on July 1, 2017, by virtue of the recently passed BOSSs Act, 2017, (BOSSs), which comes into force on June 30, 2017.

On 4 December 2024, the Official Journal of the European Union published two pivotal legislative updates to the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR 3.0)...

The BVI Business Companies Act (as amended) (the "Act") introduced the requirement for BVI companies to file an annual return (otherwise known as a financial return)...

A discussion on a number of recent BVI case notes.

One way in which BVI companies remain relevant and popular is as a vehicle for taking a company or group public on a stock market

The BVI and Cayman Courts are usually the work horses of the Caribbean international financial centres. 2016 proved to be no different.

The BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) has issued the Regulatory Code (Recognised Exchanges) Notice, 2015 (the Notice) under powers set out in the Regulatory Code, 2009 (the Code). The Notice is effective as of 15 January 2016.

In Antow Holdings Limited v. Best Nation Investments Limited, a case concerning a challenge to the transfer of shares, the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal ...

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) is the world’s leading corporate domicile, with approximately 454,000 active companies and over 500 active limited partnerships.

On 12 November 2025, the BVI's Commercial Division of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court delivered a significant judgment in a complex inter-family dispute concerning valuable shares (the APIC Shares)...

In this chapter we will focus on the popularity of BVI companies as listing vehicles on international stock exchanges, including the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the London Stock Exchange...

The issue of beneficial ownership information for legal entities, and particularly whether such information should be publicly available and freely accessible has been a major...

Weavering Macro Fixed Income Fund was placed into liquidation in March 2009 after it was revealed that the Fund's main asset, being a basket of interest rate swaps entered into with a related entity, were worthless.

Few areas of finance are developing faster than crypto-assets, a category that includes cryptocurrencies, securities tokens and utility tokens, whose common feature is use of distributed ledger technology (DLT).

Companies often consider "what if" they could transfer to another jurisdiction based on what is currently happening in their jurisdiction, or simply to take advantage of the regime and benefits...