Finance Centres: British Isle Offshore Development Since 1979

The offshore financial services revolution - the transformation of tax havens into global intermediate economies and the formation of a secondary system of world banking, 1960-1979 the constitutional parameters of British Isle fiscal sovereignty and the record of financial sector development under the aegis of UK Exchange Control Act, 1947-1979 globalization, onshore deregulation and the collective reconstruction of the international business friction matrix in the 1980s Jersey - the consolidation development of an offshore banking centre, 1979-91 Guernsey - the spectacular rise of a diversified offshore finance centre, 1979-91 the Isle of Man - continual problems of offshore banking take-off and the launch of a diversified offshore economy, 1979-91 offshore activities in a competitive globalizing operational environment undergoing supervisory and regulatory convergence. Appendices: "Avoidance of British Direct Taxation by Removal of Residence, Domicile or Property of the UK", a note by the Board of the Inland Revenue (1927) "Protocol 3 to the UK Treaty of Accession to EEC (1972) - the Relationship between the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and the European Economic Community" banks that registered in the British Isles Centres in the RS period 1961-79 that were still registered at the end of 1979 listed by year of original registration.