Premier Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley praised the Virgin Islands’ strides in the diplomatic world as he marked this year’s Heroes and Foreparents Day. Though the government didn’t hold an official celebration …
October 24, 2025
October 7, 2025
26 interns get a taste of financial services
Rising stars of the Virgin Islands financial services sector received a boost as the Tomorrow’s Leaders Internship Programme gave 26 youths work experience within top-tier firms in the territory. The …
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April 20, 2021
VI tops financial centre ranking in region
The Virgin Islands climbed four places to regain its title as the top financial centre out of 13 in the Latin America and Caribbean region in the 29th edition of …
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October 14, 2020
BVI Finance responds to FinCEN leaks
Due to the territory’s Beneficial Ownership Secure Search system, the Virgin Islands is better prepared than most other jurisdictions to respond to the types of suspicious activity reports leaked in …
July 8, 2020
Experts weigh in on EU, Covid-19
The global Covid-19 crisis is slowing the ongoing implementation of “economic substance” rules that affect international financial centres, but this delay may result in a more considered strategy and rollout, …
February 6, 2020
Business solutions forum topics revealed
The “Business Solutions Forum” on financial services last week was closed to the media, but BVI Finance said in a subsequent press release that the approximately 80 attendees discussed “infrastructure, …
October 9, 2019
New incorporations hit 16-year low
The Virgin Islands financial services industry continued a downward slide in the second quarter of 2019, incorporating 6,365 new companies to turn in its worst quarter since 2003, when the …
August 8, 2019
OECD: VI tax regime “not harmful”
The legal framework of the Virgin Islands, along with those of 11 other low- and no-tax jurisdictions, has been declared “not harmful” by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development …
July 11, 2019
Q1 incorporations down 19% from Q4
The Virgin Islands incorporated 7,214 new companies in the first quarter of 2019, representing an approximately 19 percent dip from the previous quarter’s total of 8,916 incorporations and turning in …
June 4, 2019
Financial services had best year since 2015
The territory’s financial services industry managed to weather a number of threats from abroad and finished 2018 stronger than the previous two years, as indicated by recently published fourth-quarter 2018 …
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