Structured Finance – Why Cayman?
Article by Alasdair Robertson and Nicola Bashforth From Maples and Calder Cayman SPVs The Cayman Islands is one of the leading jurisdictions in which to establish special purpose vehicles (SPVs) used for securitisation and other structured-finance transactions. A structured-finance transaction…
Hong Kong’s dirty, bloody secret
From Debra Rosen, Walk Free Call on the Hong Kong Labour Ministry to protect workers from domestic slavery Campaign update: Just days ago, the Hong Kong Labour Ministry BLOCKED OUR EMAILS. We are now planning to deliver all signatures in…
Oil boss urges overhaul of Brent oil price benchmark
By Jamie Robertson From BBC World News A growing number of experts are saying a wider range of crude oil types should be introduced to form a truer benchmark than Brent has become The head of the world’s largest oil…
Google must take down Anti-Islam film ‘Innocence of Muslims,’ says court
By Morgan Lee, From Christian Post A federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that Google must remove an anti-Islam film that generated riots across the Middle East and Asia in September 2012. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in…
2-Power project win for Malaysia’s 1MDB bolsters IPO prospects
By Yantoultra Ngui and Saeed Azhar KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE, Feb 28 (Reuters) – A planned $2 billion IPO of Malaysia Development Bhd’s (1MDB) power assets got a major boost on Friday after the sovereign wealth fund won a closely contested government…
Fair trade and slave free: the only chocolate for your Valentine
By Kristina Chew From Care2 Buying one of love’s emblematic tokens — chocolate — has gotten rather complicated and for good reason. Scratch the surface of how chocolate is produced and you’ll soon discover that a shocking amount of global…
A brand new hybrid bird flu in China has scientists worried
By Jennifer Welsh From Business Insider A new-to-humans flu virus killed a 73-year-old woman from the Jiangxi province in China, on Dec. 6. At the time, the doctors knew it was a H10N8 bird flu virus that killed her. But,…
How to capture the right kind of talent
By Alina Dizik BBC PHOTO: Participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images) Sony had a hiring problem. It wasn’t that the Japanese retailer, with more than 130 stores worldwide, including 38 in the US, couldn’t find…
News from Appleby
Appleby report highlights increase in insolvency petition filings in Cayman An Appleby report on petition filings in the Cayman Islands, going back to 2008, has revealed that insolvency filings on the islands spiked more than 30 per cent in 2013…
Britain’s Jaguar Land Rover taps global markets for record sales
By Tommy Wilkes Reuters From Daily Press LONDON (Reuters) – British luxury car manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover sold a record volume of vehicles last year, when rising demand in markets such as Brazil, China, India and the United States helped…
