Tatenda Gotosa, the head of corporate governance for the Virgin Islands branch of Harneys, discusses investment opportunities in Africa at a March 8 BVI Finance breakfast forum. Photo: KEN SILVA

With a roughly three-year-old office in Hong Kong and frequent trips to the region by government leaders, the Virgin Islands has doubled down on its efforts to attract financial services business from Asia in recent years. They have good reason, considering that the continent is home to some of the world’s fastest-growing economies.

Tatenda Gotosa, the head of corporate governance for the Virgin Islands branch of Harneys, discusses investment opportunities in Africa at a March 8 BVI Finance breakfast forum. Photo: KEN SILVA
But the VI is also looking to court business from Africa, which, with three of the 10 fastest-growing economies in the world, is second only to Asia.

BVI Finance’s head of business development, Gary Hales, said at a March 8 breakfast forum on African investment opportunities that industry practitioners and BVI Finance officials would meet in the coming weeks to “lay out the Africa strategy.”

See the March 30, 2017 edition for full coverage.

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