The Virgin Islands was hailed as a beacon for good business standards at a major financial conference in the United States. During a panel organised by BVI Finance at OffshoreAlert …
May 19, 2025
August 26, 2024
Virgin Islands urged to match other OTs on company registers
The Virgin Islands could face an economic hit if it does not keep pace with other overseas territories as they expand access to their company registers in the coming months, …
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July 12, 2024
New UK foreign secretary has roots in Caribbean
David Lammy, who has family roots in Guyana, has become the most senior black person ever in a British Labour government after being appointed foreign, commonwealth and development secretary following …
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December 14, 2023
Virgin Islands pushes back after company register criticism
Last Thursday during a back- bench business debate in the United Kingdom House of Commons, some UK parliamentarians criticised overseas territories for not establishing public registers of beneficial ownership this …
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November 16, 2023
Overseas territories ministers meet with UK leaders in London
The United Kingdom’s planned overseas territory strategy, public company registers, and other topics were on the agenda this week in London when OT leaders met with senior UK officials at …
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September 25, 2020
Premier softens position on public registers
Premier Andrew Fahie appears to have softened his government’s stance on the United Kingdom’s push for the overseas territories to enact public registers of beneficial owner- ship by 2023. For …
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November 4, 2019
US moves toward registers of beneficial ownership
Echoing a push in the United Kingdom and its territories toward greater corporate transparency, the United States House of Representatives last week passed a bipartisan bill requiring companies to disclose …
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August 23, 2019
HOA amends beneficial-ownership law
The House of Assembly passed the Beneficial Ownership Secure Search System (Amendment) (No.2) Act 2019 on Aug. 2, tweaking existing legislation in order to help ensure compliance with the European …
July 3, 2019
Dependencies promise public registers
Facing increasing pressure from members of the United Kingdom Parliament, the Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man jointly announced last week what they called “a series …
January 25, 2019
Public registers requirement will wait until 2023
The Virgin Islands and other British overseas territories learned recently that they will not be required to implement fully functioning public registers of beneficial ownership until 2023 — a reprieve …
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