"cayman" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a Caribbean island, a large aquatic reptile, or a type of small aircraft. For example, "The Cayman Islands are a popular tourist destination."
Hedge funds and banking (mostly Cayman) are down by 10-20%.The real problem is not sagging revenues but public-sector profligacy, argues Gordon Barlow, a former head of the Cayman chamber of commerce.
More recently hundreds of billions of dollars in short-term "sweep" deposits at Cayman banks flooded back to America after the Dodd-Frank act in 2010 permitted the Federal Reserve to pay overnight interest on demand deposits.Predicting the future level of hostility from onshore governments is tricky, too.
RARELY can a film have been awaited by politicians with greater consternation than "Il caimano" ("The Cayman"), which came out on March 24th right in the midst of Italy's general election campaign.
A call to Ogier House in the Channel Island of Jersey revealed that Ogier House has now changed its name to Elian Private Wealth with offices in Bahrain, British Virgin Islands & Cayman Isles.
To get around this, many American banks set up "sweep accounts" that electronically funnel money to Cayman for an interest-earning overnight stay before being swept back home.
Investors then panicked when Parmalat admitted that it had been unable to release almost €500m trapped in a mutual fund based in the Cayman Islands.That was when Mr Bondi arrived.
There is nothing particularly special about a Cayman-domiciled hedge fund, for instance; indeed more offshore hedge funds are domiciled there than anywhere else, and lawyers have so much practice that they can quickly set up another one.
The reason for going there is that the Mid-Cayman Rise is part of the 60,000km-long system of mid-ocean ridges that zigzags around the planet like a network of giant zip fasteners which open up regularly to reveal the liquid rock beneath.
Webb, based in the Cayman Islands, became Concacaf president, a Fifa vice-president and exco member in May 2012, after Warner resigned following the scandal over the $40,000 payments.
Takkas is said to have been paid by instalments into various accounts, including in the Cayman Islands, intended it is alleged, "to conceal the fact the defendant Jeffrey Webb was the beneficiary of the payment".
In addition to the money spent last year, much of which will be a result of previous commitments, CDC made at least six new long-term financial commitments to funds in Mauritius, Luxembourg, Guernsey, and the Cayman Islands.
