Cayman Islands Monetary Authority

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Fondly known to its friends and relations as CIMA, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority regulates the affairs of the widows, waifs, strays, espievies and segregated cell companies that grew up under the loving gaze of the brothers Maple (and dour Scottish naturalist A. J. N. Calder) in the colonial orphanage at Ugland House in George Town in the Cayman Islands, with the bequest of Tortuga rum magnate George Robert Maguire Ugland.

Until recently that didn’t involve much, but as the regulatory pendulum has swung away from those favouring a light touch, times have changed.

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