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The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) is the primary financial services regulator of the Cayman Islands and supervises its currency board. [2]The CIMA manages the Cayman Islands currency, regulates and supervises financial services, provides assistance to overseas regulatory authorities and advises the Cayman Islands government on financial-services regulatory matters.
The Cayman Islands dollar has been pegged to the United States dollar at 1 Cayman Islands dollar = 1.2 U.S. dollars since 1 April 1974, when the Currency Law of 1974 was enacted. [2] In 1983, the 1974 law was repealed and replaced by the Currency Law Revised, which itself was replaced in 1997 by section 22 of the Monetary Authority Law. [ 4 ]
The Law is designed to enable the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (“CIMA”) to, amongst other things, approve or deny applicants for registration or licensing as directors and retain detailed information on directors for the purposes of both assisting overseas regulatory authorities and carrying out its own regulatory functions.
CISPA is a member of the Cayman Islands Financial Services Association (CIFSA), formed in November 2003. [8] In 2005 the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) requested that a working group be formed to review the recommendations of CIMA's Policy and Research Division, which had been examining regulation of the mutual funds industry. CISPA ...
The Cayman Islands (/ ˈ k eɪ m ən /) is a self-governing British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population.The 264-square-kilometre (102-square-mile) territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located south of Cuba and north-east of Honduras, between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
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Cayman Islands: Cayman Islands dollar: KYD: Cayman Islands Monetary Authority: 1.00 KYD = 1.20 USD Cuba: Cuban peso: CUP: Central Bank of Cuba: 24.00 CUP = 1.00 USD Sint Maarten: Netherlands Antillean guilder [1] ANG: Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten: 1.79 ANG = 1.00 USD Curaçao Dominican Republic: Dominican peso: DOP
The Cayman Islands' tax-free status has attracted numerous banks and other companies to its shores. More than 92,000 companies were registered in the Cayman Islands as of 2014, [13] including almost 600 banks and trust companies, with banking assets exceeding $500 billion.