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The Cayman Islands is a leading financial services centre.. Cayman Islands company law is primarily codified in the Companies Law (2018 Revision) and the Limited Liability Companies Law, 2016, [1] and to a lesser extent in the Securities and Investment Business Law (2015 Revision).
The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) is the primary financial services regulator of the Cayman Islands and supervises its currency board. [2]The CIMA manages the Cayman Islands currency, regulates and supervises financial services, provides assistance to overseas regulatory authorities and advises the Cayman Islands government on financial-services regulatory matters.
In this list of financial regulatory and supervisory authorities, central banks are only listed where they act as direct supervisors of individual financial firms, and competition authorities and takeover panels are not listed unless they are set up exclusively for financial services.
The CDD rule enhances CDD requirements for "U.S. banks, mutual funds, brokers or dealers in securities, futures commission merchants, and introducing brokers in commodities. [3]" The CDD rule requires that financial institutions identify and verify the identity of customers associated with open accounts. The CDD rule has four core requirements: [3]
The committee expanded its membership in 2009 and then again in 2014. As of 2019, the BCBS has 45 members from 28 jurisdictions, consisting of central banks and authorities with responsibility of banking regulation. [3] The committee agrees on standards for bank capital, liquidity and funding. Those standards are non-binding high-level principles.
For example, in 2003, state carrier Pakistan International Airlines re-registered its entire fleet in the Cayman Islands as part of the financing of its purchase of eight new Boeing 777s; the U.S. bank refused to allow the aircraft to remain registered in Pakistan, and the airline refused to have the aircraft registered in the United States. [37]
The Cayman Islands Department of Commerce & Investment, formerly known as the Cayman Islands Investment Bureau (until 2010), is a government agency that was established to promote investment in the Cayman Islands. The department offers several free services to foreign investors seeking to establish a business in the Cayman Islands.
The Cayman Islands' tax-free status has attracted numerous banks and other companies to its shores. More than 92,000 companies were registered in the Cayman Islands as of 2014, [13] including almost 600 banks and trust companies, with banking assets exceeding $500 billion.