That's why Switzerland used to be a great place to hide your money decades ago - low taxes and numbered accounts where it was illegal to reveal the true identify of the account holder.
Based on DelaneyM's comment - Caymans has the 1st but not the 2nd.
Cayman invests a lot of energy in sensible and globally integrated financial regulations. We specialize on that as a country. So when companies are moving money around globally we often feature in that. But we can’t be held responsible for what those funds transfers are used for.
We can be transparent (and we are exceptionally so), we can be responsive to global financial crimes queries (we are that as well). But what are we supposed to do about another country’s laws?
> Cayman invests a lot of energy in sensible and globally integrated financial regulations. We specialize on that as a country.
the reason the Cayman islands may have made all those investments is because that is what is expected of a mature tax haven
> we can’t be held responsible for what those funds transfers are used for
> what are we supposed to do about another country’s laws?
I mean, if you don't want to be a tax haven, you could raise taxes to be less favorable to businesses, but I'm not saying you should do anything, because this conversation is descriptive, not prescriptive
Some companies put money outside of their operating or home country to minimize taxes, but Cayman has no part of that besides being “not their operating country”.
And it’s actually less often the tax treatment of funds which brings companies to Cayman, and much more often the simpler regulations. Operating globally often means a geometric growth in financial complexity. Cayman is a neutral third country, which simplifies things tremendously. Think of us like a financial cache.