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News

• Campbells advises ‘Bitstamp by Robinhood’ on obtaining BVI VASP licence

  Campbells advised on a successful application for a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) licence in the British Virgin Islands.

• Caribbean Regulatory Update – Q4 2025

  The Q4 Regulatory Update provides an overview of the main legal developments in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands from 1 October to 31 December 2025.

• Caribbean Regulatory Update – Q3 2025

  The Q3 Regulatory Update provides an overview of the main legal developments in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands from 1 July to 30 September 2025.

• Campbells advises Ondo Finance and Ondo Foundation on launch of Ondo Global Markets

  We are proud to have advised on the launch of Ondo Global Markets - bringing 100+ tokenised U.S. stocks and ETFs on-chain, live on Ethereum 24/7.

• Caribbean Regulatory Update – Q2 2025

  The Q2 Regulatory Update provides an overview of the main legal developments in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands from 1 April to 30 June 2025.

• Caribbean Regulatory Update – Q4 2024

  The Q4 Regulatory Update provides an overview of the main legal developments in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands from 1 October to 31 December 2024.

• Caribbean Regulatory Update – Q3 2024

  The Q3 Regulatory Update provides an overview of the main legal developments in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands from 1 July to 30 September 2024.

• Caribbean Regulatory Update – Q2 2024

  This Update provides an overview of the main legal developments in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands from 1 April to 30 June 2024.

• Cayman and BVI Regulatory Update – Q1 2024

  This Update provides an overview of the main legal developments in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands from 1 January to 31 March 2024.

• Cayman and BVI Regulatory Update – Q4 2023

  This Update provides an overview of the main legal developments in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands from 1 October to 31 December 2023.

• Cayman and BVI Regulatory Update – Q3 2023

  This quarter's Update provides an overview of the main legal developments in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands from 1 July to 30 September 2023.

• Campbells Cayman and BVI Regulatory Update – Q2 2023

  This quarter's Update provides an overview of the main legal developments in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands from 1 April to 30 June 2023.

• Campbells Regulatory Update – Q1 2023

  This quarter's Update provides an overview of the main legal developments in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands from 1 January to 31 March 2023.

• Campbells Regulatory Update – Q4 2022

  This quarter's Update provides an overview of the main legal developments in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands from 1 October to 31 December 2022. 

• Campbells Regulatory Update – Q3 2022

  This update provides an overview of the main legal developments in the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands over the last quarter.

• Campbells announces BVI Scholarship recipients for 2022

  Campbells is pleased to announce that Jae Hodge and Kadecia Harry have been awarded our British Virgin Islands undergraduate scholarships for 2022.

Articles

• Campbells authors Chambers FinTech Guide – British Virgin Islands

  This article provides an in-depth overview of the evolving FinTech legal and regulatory landscape in the British Virgin Islands.

• Secured Lending – creating security in the BVI

  This article discusses in detail the steps, both required and optional, to register security created by a BVI company in a secured lending transaction.

Client Advisories

• BVI Professional Fund – The most popular BVI investment funds product

  The British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) is one of the leading offshore investment funds jurisdictions, attracting investment managers and investors worldwide. BVI investment fund structures are well known in the industry and very flexible allowing investment managers to tailor their offering to the needs of investors.

• Campbells’ Guide to the 2024 BVI Business Companies Act Amendments

  Demonstrating its commitment to ensuring that its financial services industry is aligned with international best practices, the BVI Business Companies (Amendment) Act, 2024 which makes various amendments to the BVI Business Companies Act (as revised), was published in the BVI Gazette on 26 September 2024. 

• Deadline approaching to file the BVI Annual Financial Return

  Every BVI company is required to file with its registered agent an annual financial return within 9 months of either the company’s calendar year or, if the company’s financial year is not a calendar year, the company’s financial year.

• The BVI Virtual Assets Service Providers Act, 2022 comes into force

  Following our client advisory issued on 11 January 2023, the BVI Virtual Assets Service Providers Act, 2022 (the “VASP Act”) will come into force on 1 February 2023. 

• The British Virgin Islands Virtual Assets Service Providers Act, 2022

  BVI has become one of the leading jurisdictions for the establishment of virtual asset legal structures over recent years, and the enactment of the VASP Act demonstrates the BVI’s commitment to the virtual asset sector. 

• BVI Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) – New AML Requirements and Legal Framework

  With effect from 1 December 2022, all BVI entities that fall within the definition of a virtual asset service provider (a “VASP”), as set out in the recently amended BVI Anti-Money Laundering Regulations (the “AML Regulations”) and Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Codes of Practice (the “Code”), will be required to comply in full with BVI anti-money laundering, counter-terrorist financing and anti-proliferation finance legislation (together the “BVI AML Laws”).

• Campbells’ Guide to the 2022 BVI Business Companies Act Amendments

  The British Virgin Islands (“BVI”) continues to demonstrate its commitment to ensuring that its financial services industry is aligned with international best practices, as set by bodies such as the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes and the Financial Action Task Force. To this end, the BVI Business Companies Act and the BVI Business Companies Regulations were recently amended by the BVI Business Companies (Amendment) Act, 2022 (the “Amending Act”) and the BVI Business Companies (Amendment) Regulations, 2022 (the “Amending Regulations”).