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The 2018 BVI Asia Trade Mission to five Asian cities completed its successful and productive two-week roadshow on Friday 15th June, with BVI hosting a trade conference in Shanghai with the theme “BVI: Asia’s International Partner in the Digital Era” held at the Ritz-Carlton Pudong.

The 2018 BVI Asia Trade Mission to five Asian cities continued its successful and productive road show today, carrying the theme “BVI: Asia’s International Partner in the Digital Era” into its fourth BVI Asia Conference held at the Sofitel Hangzhou Hotel and attended by more than 100 industry and business leaders.

Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith, OBE, will attend meetings in Beijing this week to promote the interests of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and has asked the Deputy Premier to stand in for high level political meetings in the UK.

Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith, OBE, announced the leading counsel chosen to advise the BVI Government following the passage of the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act and the threat to impose publicly accessible registers of beneficial ownership on British Overseas Territories by the UK.

BVI Finance today confirmed that the fundamentals for the BVI’s financial services industry remain sound despite the UK Parliament today approving a law which threatens to use an Order in Council unilaterally to impose publicly accessible registers of company beneficial ownership onto the Overseas Territories, if they do not introduce them voluntarily, by 31 December 2020.

The international business and financial centre of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has demonstrated its ability to overcome adversity and return to business as usual, after posting robust new company incorporation growth mere months after it was hit by a category five hurricane last September.