Cayman Islands: Data Protection

The Cayman Islands introduced significant regulatory changes in Q1 2026, including increased annual fees for regulated entities, extended deadlines for Common Reporting Standard compliance, and a new statutory framework for tokenised fund structures.

The Financial Action Task Force has released a comprehensive report examining how criminals exploit stablecoins through peer-to-peer transactions and unhosted wallets for money laundering and terrorist financing. This analysis explores the regulatory landscape across multiple offshore jurisdictions and outlines practical compliance measures that stablecoin issuers and digital asset businesses should implement to combat financial crime.

The EU Data Act (Regulation (EU) 2023/2854) introduces a new, horizontal regime governing unfair terms in business-to-business contracts that address access to and use of data, or liability and remedies for breach...

In this episode, we discuss the latest on FATF, rules and corporate governance and internal controls (COGS), proposed new bills and data protection.

With news stories of ransomware attacks ever increasing, so too does the potential compromise of personal data held by entities subject to such attacks or other cyber security breaches.

The fintech market in the Cayman Islands has significantly developed its technology talent pool and its increasingly mature technology industry is developing and strengthening the financial...

The fintech market in the Cayman Islands has significantly developed its technology talent pool and its increasingly mature technology industry is developing and strengthening the financial...

The Cayman Islands is recognised as a major international financial and banking centre

The expiry of the Brexit transition period raised data protection compliance concerns for many companies operating in both Ireland and the United Kingdom ("UK").