For the first time in one public forum, the chiefs of the SEC, CFTC and IRS whistleblower offices will discuss Whistleblowing as a tool to fight financial crime at The 10th Annual OffshoreAlert Conference. Sean McKessy (SEC), Vince Martinez (CFTC),
"Irresponsible" governments, regulators and banks are mainly responsible for the global recession, not Offshore Financial Centers, said Tim Ridley, former Chairman of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.
Judges in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands will discuss key rulings and judicial issues affecting foreign individuals and businesses at The 10th Annual OffshoreAlert Conference later in the year.
OffshoreAlert has now finished backdating our coverage of actions filed at the Financial Services Division of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands to the filing of the Division's first case on November 2, 2009.
OffshoreAlert has come a long way since it was launched in 1997 as a monthly newsletter that was distributed via Cable & Wireless' unreliable broadcast fax service that we connected to by dial-up modem from a tiny cubicle in a Miami office building.
