Gibraltar’s bid to capture a significant share of the expanding $US 7.5bn a year world market in Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) has been given a real boost, with news that a stock exchange is to be established and the arrival…
Joey Garcia is a financial services Partner at ISOLAS law firm and chairman of the Gibraltar Funds and Investments Association (GFIA) Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) have been proven to be one of the most successful manifestations of the convergence of…
By Louis C. Montegriffo, Managing Director, BMI Group Or are they?? Don’t panic people, I am not about to take issue with civil rights movements, although to be fair, we could do with our own version of Bob Dylan singing…
Local suppliers of electronic services are facing higher operating costs and a great deal of uncertainty as a result of new EU-wide rules on Value Added Tax (VAT), as business representatives discovered in early October when they joined a round…
Eran Shay is the managing director of Benefit Business Solutions Ltd, a Gibraltar registered company that specialises in jumpstarting new businesses, through business plan preparation, market surveys, valuations, capital raising and outsourced CFO services. The company also provides local agent…
With security, regulation and taxation issues to be considered, Gibraltar’s government is debating whether it should provide a home for rapidly growing virtual currencies, like Bitcoin. After UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, last summer prompted a Treasury investigation…
The UK personal motor market returned to underwriting profitability in 2013 for the first time in at least a decade, but this position is deemed unsustainable without price increases writes Saxon East and Ben Dyson from the Insurance Times Personal…
Adrian Hogg is a director of the Grant Thornton Gibraltar Group of Companies. He is a former GFIA Chairman and a specialist in investment business with over a decades experience involving various investment business structures in Gibraltar and the Caribbean…
Gibraltar will have been represented at nine major funds events in seven international cities in 2014 – twice the number attended last year – to promote the jurisdiction as the best EU-gateway to Europe with rapid regulatory approval of funds…
Gibraltar International Bank (GIB), being launched by the government to provide competition and facilities in the wake of closure of a local high street bank, has been provided with £25m initial capital. That implies GIB has potential to lend £160m…
