Extracts from the address made by Anthony Travers at the IBC Transcontinental Trust Forum in Geneva, Switzerland on 15th June 2016 responding to the mischaracterisation of the Cayman Islands Finacial Services Industry suggested by BBC Producer, Jacques Peretti, in his televised BBC programme “Britain’s Trillion Pound Island”
Anthony Travers, OBE, is the Chairman of the Cayman Islands Stock Exchange, former Chairman of Cayman Finance and former President of the Cayman Islands Law Society.
Having qualified at Clifford –Turner in 1975, he spent his thirty year legal career years with leading offshore law firm Maples and Calder where he served as Senior Partner and a Managing Partner for over twenty years both in Cayman and in various foreign offices that he established for the firm.