The Cayman Islands: a leading international financial centre

Kevin Poole, member of the Insurance Managers Association of Cayman executive team,...
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Cayman pure captive formations on the up in 2023

Statistics show a drop off in new SPC and group formations, but...
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CIMA appoints Ebanks head of insurance supervision division

Ebanks is well known to Cayman captive professionals, having worked for the...
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Phillips 66 captives post ‘generally favourable’ loss experience

AM Best praises Phillips 66 for its strong loss control programme.  ...
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Coley leaves Global Captive Management

Assistant vice president had been with the captive manager for over nine...
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CIMA fines Artex and Kevin Poole

Cayman regulator finds they supplied false or misleading information, and also fines...
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CIMA: Cayman insurance landscape ‘changing rapidly’

Captive market is maturing, regulator says, with new commercial and reinsurance licensees...
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Andre Ebanks: Cayman to become “braver” in telling its story

Welcoming attendees to CCF, Ebanks tells how he wants to change perceptions...
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Tax perceptions still a key problem for Caribbean domiciles

SRS Barbados’ Kirk Cyrus tells Captive Review how changing perceptions from the...
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ICS: Future-proofing Cayman

Innovative Captive Strategies takes a close look at potential weak spots the...
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New Cayman insurance licence approvals at 28 for 2022 so far

This number could rise, with 10 more applications currently under review.  ...
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Captive owner explains reasons for redomiciling to Cayman

Cayman had more captives redomicile to the islands last year than redomicile...
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CIMA reveals the regulatory changes coming in 2023

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Cayman regulator highlights four areas it plans to update next year that...
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Campbells: Cayman court decision puts the ‘segregated’ back into SPC

Campbells’ Alan Craig, Paul Kennedy and Nienke Lillington discuss the Grand Court’s...
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Cayman playing to its strengths

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What is making the Cayman Islands so attractive to captive management industries...
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ICS: Cayman ‘uniquely positioned’ but no room for complacency

Innovative Captive Strategies looks at why the Cayman Islands is such a...
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Cayman Report 2022: Digital edition now online!

Prepare for the Cayman Captive Forum this week by having a read...
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CIMA’s insurance chief analyst exits to join Artex

Leaves the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority to take up director and regional...
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AM Best affirms Raffles ratings

Cayman-based group captive provides insurance to 450 SMEs.   AM Best has affirmed...
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Cayman making ‘progress’ on FATF grey list removal

Cayman Finance’s Steve McIntosh pleased at ‘significant progress’ made towards grey list...
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Poole joins RISCS as a partner

Captive veteran joins from Artex to focus on captive consulting in the...
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CIMA reminds firms of new bank details

Cayman regulator stopped accepting fee payments to its previous bank account on...
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Cayman Captive Forum reveals keynote speaker

Eric Termuende will speak at the annual conference.   Cayman International Insurance...
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The redomestication factor

We explore the factors behind the uptick in re-domestications of US-parents’ captives...
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World Domicile Update reveals surge in captive insurance cell formations

An annual report by Captive Review has revealed that global captive numbers...
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Cayman Islands submits opinion on Solvency II

The Cayman Islands has submitted an opinion to the Organisation for Economic...
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Cayman Islands, Florida both revoke licence of CTS Captive Management

Both the Cayman Island's Monetary Authority (CIMA) and the Florida Office of...
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New report puts focus on Cayman

A new Captive Review report has been released focusing on the second largest captive...
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Cayman Islands licences 9 captives in Q3

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority licenced nine captives in Q3 2020. Of...
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Cayman Islands removed from tax blacklist

The Cayman Islands has been removed from the EU tax blacklist, after...
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Healthcare captive may experience “significant losses”

A healthcare provider with wholly owned captives has stated in its first...
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WTW makes Cayman appointments

Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has made two significant appointments in its Cayman...
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Cayman Islands added to tax blacklist

As predicted, the Cayman Islands has been added to the EU tax...
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Cayman Islands to be named on EU tax blacklist

The Cayman Islands is expected to be put on an European Union...
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Willis Towers Watson MD joins SRS

Independent captive manager Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS) has hired Stephen Gray in...
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Exclusive: Conyers taps two from rival Solomon Harris

Law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman has hired two lawyers from Solomon...
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SOBC DARAG: Captives a ‘growing’ legacy market

Risk Retention Groups (RRGs) and captives are an area of opportunity for...
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Artex to launch Cayman group captive

Artex Risk Solutions is planning to launch a group captive programme in...
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Phillips 66 captives rated ‘Excellent’

The onshore and offshore captives owned by multinational energy company Phillips 66...
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Cayman issues four licences in third quarter

The Cayman Islands has 603 active captives after issuing four licences, plus...
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UIC rated ‘Excellent’

United Insurance Company (UIC), a Cayman Islands-domiciled reinsurer working with captive insurance...
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Cayman strengthens ties to US with NAIC memorandum

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) has signed a memorandum of understanding...
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Clayton Price to lead Beecher Carlson office in Cayman

Beecher Carlson has appointed captive veteran Clayton Price to lead a new...
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Cayman issues 14 insurance licences in Q2

Ten new captives were established in the Cayman Islands during the second...
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EY’s Bulkowski to move to Cayman Islands

Jim Bulkowski, EY’s captive insurance services co-leader, will relocate to Cayman Islands...
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Third party risk dominates new Cayman licences

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority licensed five new insurers in the first...
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Derek Stenson joins Conyers Dill & Pearman as partner

Conyers Dill & Pearman has appointed Derek Stenson as a partner in...
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Captive numbers down, but premium up in Cayman

The Cayman Islands captive statistics show a decrease in entities during 2017,...
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Major captive domiciles avoid EU blacklist

The Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Guernsey and the Isle of Man have committed...
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JLT planning formal Cayman presence

JLT Insurance Management is keen to make an acquisition in the Cayman...
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Cayman Islands Report 2018

The industry experts featured in the Captive Review Cayman Report reflect on...
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Two SPCs among new Cayman licences

Segregated portfolio companies (SPCs) continue to prosper in the Cayman Islands with...
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Axial, QBE and SRS complete stop loss captive deal

Axial Benefits Group (ABG) has structured a medical stop loss (MSL) transaction...
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Cayman licences seven captives in Q3

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) licensed seven new captives in the...
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R&Q completes another captive novation

Run-off specialists R&Q has completed the novation of reinsurance policies from a...
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Bermuda and Cayman captives produce strong returns

The 30 A.M. Best rated captives domiciled in Bermuda and the Cayman...
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Ireland deemed ‘compliant’, Bermuda and Cayman Islands ‘largely compliant’ by Global Forum

The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes...
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SPCs and pure captives lead formation activity in Cayman

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) licensed nine new insurers in the...
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Deputy insurance regulator appointed in Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) has appointed Suzanne Sadlier as deputy...
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New beneficial ownership regime nears in Cayman

The new beneficial ownership regime in the Cayman Islands will come into...
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SPCs dominate Cayman’s first quarter formations

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority licensed eight new insurance companies in the...
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Healthcare and middle market top beneficiaries of Cayman cells – Paul Scrivener

The ability to form segregated portfolio companies (SPCs) in the Cayman Islands...
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Pure captive numbers fall in Cayman Islands

The captive insurance numbers in the Cayman Islands fell during 2016, despite...
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Cayman Report 2017

Jude Scott has been the chief executive officer of Cayman Finance since...
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Artex forms new group captive in Cayman

Artex has established a new heterogeneous group captive in the Cayman Islands...
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Cayman licences 10 insurance entities in Q3

The Cayman Islands has 655 active captive licences as of 30 September,...
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Crowe adds audit partner to Cayman operation

Crowe Horwath Cayman has recruited Neil Maynard from EisnerAmper to lead its...
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Canada a key market for Cayman Islands – Kieran O’Mahony

The Cayman Islands will continue to target the Canadian corporate market as...
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Crowe Horwath gets licence to audit Cayman captives

Crowe Horwath, a public accounting and consulting firm, has received permission from...
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Cayman cell company formed to transfer pension risk

The latest cell company formed in the Cayman Islands to take advantage...
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Pure captives down, but groups and SPCs up in Cayman

The Cayman Islands had 656 active captive licences at 30 June, 2016...
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Cayman appoints permanent insurance regulator

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) has appointed Ruwan Jayasekera as its...
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Strong Q1 and Q2 in Cayman – Adrian Lynch

Adrian Lynch, managing director of Aon Captive & Insurance Management in Cayman,...
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Cayman industry should not feel nervous about lack of regulator – CIMA

A spokesperson for the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) has told Captive...
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Cayman Islands stands ground against public register of ownership

The Cayman Islands and the government of the United Kingdom agreed on...
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Cayman PICs proving popular among rent-a-captive clients – Kieran O’Mahony

The portfolio insurance company (PIC) legislation enacted at the beginning of 2015...
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Licence clean up sees pure captive numbers fall further in Cayman

The number of captive insurance companies licensed in the Cayman Islands has...
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Cayman’s captive drop-off a result of healthcare M&As and licence clean up

The steep drop in captives domiciled in the Cayman Islands during the...
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Cayman experiences significant drop-off in Q2 captive numbers

The Cayman Islands has lost 39 captives in the three month period...
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Cayman close to regulator appointment, but no timetable in place

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) has told Captive Review the process...
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Cayman must embrace offshore debate to survive – Adrian Lynch

Stakeholders within Cayman’s captive industry should not shy away from engaging in...
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Cayman Video Report 2015

Aon Insurance Managers, Marsh Captive Solutions, KPMG, Walkers and Global Captive Management...
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Aon adds director to Cayman office

Gillian Owen has been appointed director at Aon Insurance Managers Cayman, focusing...
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Schlumberger Cayman captives rated ‘Excellent’

Oilfield services giant Schlumberger has had the financial strength rating of ‘A’...
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Cayman adds 16 new captives in first nine months of 2014

The Cayman Islands has added 16 new captive insurance licensed in the...
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MacLean completes switch from Aon to SRS

Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS) has confirmed the appointment of Dan MacLean as...
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CIMA appoints new deputy MD

Anna McLean has returned to the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) to...
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Voya Financial benefiting from reinsurance captive

Life insurer Voya Financial, recently rebranded from ING U.S., continues to benefit...
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Cayman adds 39 captives in 2013

The Cayman Islands issued 39 captive licences during 2013 and increased the...
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Moody's wary of special purpose health captives

Ratings agency Moody’s has warned against the idea of using a special...
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Reinsurance rates proving fillip for captives

Dara Keogh, a partner at KPMG in the Cayman Islands says the...
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Investing captive cash

One of the hot topics on the closing day of the Cayman...
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PIC’s main topic at CCF

One of the main topics of conversation on the first day of...
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PPACA and its effect on captives

KPMG believes that PPACA is having a significant impact on US healthcare...
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Helix cautions against late rush into equities

Simon Cawdery, director at Helix Advisory Services in the Cayman Islands, says...
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Malta and Cayman sign TIEA

Captive domiciles Malta and the Cayman Islands signed a Tax Information Exchange...
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GCM names new vice president

Ian Bridges has rejoined Cayman Islands-based captive insurance managers Global Captive Management...
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Greenlight Re receives positive rating

AM Best has affirmed the financial strength rating of A (Excellent) and...
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Dan MacLean to join Strategic Risk Solutions

Strategic Risk Solutions (SRS) (Cayman) Ltd, a provider of captive management and...
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Cayman stock exchange updates listing rules for specialist companies

The Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) has issued new listing rules for...
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Atlas makes two senior appointments

Cayman Islands based independent insurance management firm, Atlas Insurance Management has appointed...
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Cayman captives reach all time high

The Cayman Islands captive insurance industry has reached a record-breaking high of...
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Greenlight Re post positive Q2 results

Greenlight Capital Re increased its gross written premium by 61% to $135.2mn...
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Cayman's Advantage makes senior key appointments

Cayman Islands-based captive managers, Advantage Insurance Holdings, have made several key appointments...
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Study: Easier to set up puppet company in US and Britain than a tax haven

Britain is one of the easiest places in the world to set...
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Overseas territories agree on G8 tax information deal

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has obtained agreement from Britain's overseas territories...
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UK asks ‘tax havens’ to sign convention

UK prime minister, David Cameron has requested for the senior ministers of...
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Southport Re first to benefit from Cayman amended insurance law

Southport Re (Cayman), Ltd., has become the first insurer in the Cayman...
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Cayman Islands: modest increase in captive insurance in Q1 2013

The number of funds and banks in the Cayman Islands is decreasing,...
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New EastWest captive program

Eastern Alliance Insurance Group, a subsidiary of Eastern Insurance Holdings, Inc. and...
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OECD commends Cayman in latest review

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) latest Global Forum Peer...
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Health system withdraws life insurance application

A Kansas-based health system, Via Christi Health, has withdrawn a Labor Department...
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Cat bond boom predicted for Cayman

The Cayman Islands’ catastrophe bonds market is expected to thrive in 2012...
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Solvency II pushes captives to Cayman

The Cayman Islands has not sought Solvency II equivalence, unlike its main...
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Bermuda licenses two new Canadian captives

Bermuda has reported an increase in Canadian captives looking to domicile in...
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Transocean’s captive not to pay claims to BP

Transocean’s captive, Ranger Insurance, will not have to pay claims or defence...
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Swiss Re places $106.5m cat bond

Swiss Re has obtained $106.5m coverage for North Atlantic hurricane, European windstorm,...
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Kane believed to be buying HIM

HSBC Bermuda is thought to have accepted an offer from Kane to...
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Atlas secures Montana licence

Atlas Insurance Management (Atlas) announced on Friday (29 October 2010) that it...
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Swiss Re transfers $175m extreme mortality risk to Cayman SPV

Swiss Re today announced today (27 October 2010) the transfer of $175m...
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Solvency II not fit for purpose in regulating captives

The Solvency II Directive (S II) is not appropriate for the regulation...
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New Cayman law re-classifies captives

The Cayman Island government has undertaken a comprehensive review of its existing...
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Mourant Ozannes merger completed

The merger between offshore law firms Ozannes and Mourant du Feu &...
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Concordis develops cell captive network

Financial holding company Concordis Group has announced that it is developing a...
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Cayman Islands chases further TIEAs

The Cayman Islands has announced that it is to conclude a further...
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Channel Islands law firms to merge

Ozannes and Mourant du Feu & Jeune, two of the Channel Islands'...
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Cayman captive growth up 25% on 2008

The Cayman Islands has experienced a 25% growth in captive formations from...
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LOM to leave Cayman for Bahamas

LOM Holdings has announced that it will be closing its Caribbean office...
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Caledonian to manage Concordis Group SPC

Caledonian Insurance Services has been appointed to manage the new segregated portfolio...
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Dale Sagen, vice-president and business development leader with QBE Accident & Health, on how captive...
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As Captive Review celebrates its 25th year in 2024, outgoing Captive Review publisher Nick Morgan...
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As Captive Review turns 25 this year, leaders from the industry share their thoughts on...
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