In 2020 the Cook Islands Government continued working closely with the Cook Islands financial service industry on its strategy for...

We are pleased to announce that the FSDA Executive Board Members have appointed Marie Francis as the Chief Executive Officer. Marie’s...

Employing young Cook Islanders and passing on knowledge and expertise should be a priority for service providers at the Financial...

Metis Global Limited in Hong Kong has received the ‘Excellence Award of Trustee Service” granted by Bloomberg Business Week for the...

Cook Islands Finance CEO Alan Taylor has had an article published in the July edition of the Asia Business Law Journal titled “The Cook...

On 7 August 2020 Cook Islands Finance hosted a meeting for all Cook Islands financial industry service providers to discuss its recently...

published by CEO Insight Magazine (May 2017). Available here.*

2018 November: The latest edition of CEO Insight magazine published this month features an article titled “World-Leading and Compliant”...

As part of its long term strategy to grow the international financial services industry through new services and new client markets, the...

The Cook Islands Parliament passed the Trustee Companies Act 2014 which will improve the Financial Supervisory Commission's ability to...

A positive Phase 2 Peer Review reinforces the strength of the Cook Islands' regulatory environment and commitment to meeting its...

2015 Sept:The Financial Institution (Provision of Customer Information) Act 2013 ("Act") passed in 2013 was designed to remove...

2015 Sept: Tamatoa Jonassen, CEO of the Cook Islands Financial Services Development Authority was recently interviewed by Global Island...

2015 Sept: The Cook Islands signed its 21st Tax Information Exchange Agreement (“TIEA”) with the Kingdom of Belgium in Brussels on 21...

2015 November: The FSDA attended the China Offshore Summit in Shanghai in November. The publication China Offshore Trust and Foundation...

2016 March: Tamatoa Jonassen, CEO of the Cook Islands Financial Services Development Authority was interviewed by Captive Insurance Times...

2016 May: Tamatoa Jonassen, CEO of the Cook Islands Financial Services Development Authority was recently featured by Global Island News...

2016 May: In response to media purporting to connect the Panama Papers to the Cook Islands, National Business Review requested an...

2016 June: The FSDA attended a Roundtable hosted by the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. The Cook Islands maintains a keen interest in...

2016 July: The New Zealand Government Inquiry into Foreign Trust Disclosure Rules was released on the 27 June 2016. Following the leak of...

2016 July: The OECD’s Global Tax Transparency Forum Phase 2 peer review process continues with Switzerland, the world’s largest financial...

2016 August: Following the UK vote to leave the European Union, and with the fallout from the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 still fresh...

2016 August: On 22 August 2016 the Italian Government added 51 new jurisdictions to the list of jurisdictions that it considers allow an...

2016 September: In June of this year the Cook Islands passed the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility Act 2016 (the “Act”). The...

2016 October: According to the recently published Wealth X 2016 report on Family Wealth Transfer (the “Report”), the world’s “ultra...

2016 October: In response to concerns of global leaders, including the G20, about a need for further clarification of regulatory...

2016 November: On 28 October 2016 Andrew Haigh, of the Revenue Management Division of the Cook Islands Ministry of Finance and Economic...

Cook Islands financial institutions have commenced providing information to the US IRS in regards to US account holders. The Foreign...

The Cook Islands has entered into 21 bi-lateral Tax Information Exchange Agreements (“TIEAs”). TIEAs are based on an OECD model and are...

The Income Tax (Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2016 (the “Amendment”) was passed...

The Cook Islands signed the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information (“MCAA”) in...

The Cook Islands signed the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance on Tax Matters (the “Convention”) on 28 October...

2016 November: The Cook Islands is complying with its international obligations in relation to anti money laundering and the countering...

2016 December: In October 2015 the Cook Islands signed the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement on Automatic Exchange of Financial...

2017 January: Alan Taylor, Marketing Director of the Cook Islands Financial Services Development Authority, has had his article entitled...

2017 February: Tamatoa Jonassen, CEO of the Cook Islands Financial Services Development Authority, has had his article entitled "Captive...

2017 March: The Financial Services Development Authority has produced its Summer 2017 issue of the Cook Islands Review. The Cook Islands...

2017 March: The Financial Services Development Authority has produced the first of its Fact Sheets highlighting services, products and...

2017 March: In an Interview with Henry Martin in the Spring 2017 edition of CEO Insight magazine, Tamatoa Jonassen, CEO for Cook Islands...

2017 May: In a series of conferences held in four major cities in China hosted by Metis Global Limited, a trustee company licensed in the...