Terrence Patrick Duffy

Letter to the Editor from Artem Khachatryan requesting we remove information about Terrence Patrick Duffy and Marta Miraglia regarding Cayman's Caledonian Bank.

A U. S. regulator's much-criticized securities fraud complaint against Cayman Islands-based Caledonian Bank and Caledonian Securities is near a conclusion after a federal judge in New York yesterday approved a "seemingly illusory" settlement between the parties and rejected an attempt to block it by the group's "putative owner".

The U. S. SEC and the liquidators of Cayman Islands-domiciled Caledonian Bank have objected to an attempt by Sentinel Trust Services to block their proposed settlement of a securities fraud complaint and have questioned Sentinel's claim to be the bank's "owner".

Cayman Islands-domiciled Sentinel Trust Services - claiming to be the owner of Caledonian Bank - is seeking to block the bank's proposed securities fraud settlement agreement with the SEC and force the regulator to pay damages for causing the bank's collapse.

Cayman Islands-based Caledonian Bank has millions of dollars of related-party transactions that typically "can be difficult to recover full value" and is exposed to "a single large loan" of $93.7 million, representing more than half of all loans receivable. The grim news for creditors came in the first report of liquidators Keiran Hutchison and Claire Loebell.

Research by OffshoreAlert indicates that insolvent Caledonian Bank is controlled by Canadian hedge fund boss and United States citizenship-renouncer Terry Duffy, not Curaçao-based hedge fund services provider Gordon Casey, as claimed by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority in its petition to wind up the bank.