The Future of Onshore and Offshore Financial Centres

2 December 2009

The Conference in Brief

  • Challenges and opportunities for offshore and onshore financial centres
  • Review of British Offshore Centres
  • Guernsey – ‘A positive political perspective’
  • Developments from an OFC’s perspectives
  • Regulatory standards in the offshore financial centres
  • The evolution of global tax standards
  • The impact of the FSA’s ‘living will’ and simplification of the capital structures of banks
  • Improvements in regulatory and corporate governance standards
  • The Fund Management industry perspective on the onshore-offshore debate -  a panel discussion
  • Development of anti-money laundering and terrorism financing regulations
  • What is required for a successful OFC or IFC? – a panel discussion