Geoff Cook, Chief Executive at Jersey Finance, has been invited to fill one of the speaker slots at the event and will join an array of leading figures in the finance, regulation and taxation world including Charlie McCreevy, Commissioner for the Internal Market with the European Commission; Paul Atkins, Commissioner, Securities & Exchange Commission in the US, and Jeffrey Owens, Head of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD.

The Conference, which is being held on Monday 16th June and Tuesday 17th June, will be presenting delegates with a global assessment of the competing offerings of different jurisdictions and regions, and will focus on world centres of excellence.

There will be sessions discussing offshore jurisdictions and regulatory compliance.

Mr Cook will share the podium with Patrick Young, author of a book on the capital markets revolution and Shashank Srivasta, Director of Strategy and Planning, Qatar Financial Centre, when the theme will be a round table discussion on offshore centres and the financial centres of the Middle East and Far East.

Earlier in the day there will be presentations devoted to tax competition, offshore/onshore money laundering regulations, and the issues of client confidentiality and privacy within EU financial centres.

The recent GFCI survey, which ranks financial centres based on external benchmarking data and current perceptions of competitiveness and in which Jersey was graded highly, will also be featured through a presentation at the conference.

Mr Cook commented that:

"This is a valuable new forum for discussing the critical issues affecting financial centres and I am delighted to be participating. There are a number of influential figures from Europe, the US and from financial centres around the world taking part and it will be an opportunity for Jersey’s views and voice to be heard in the context of a considered discussion on the issues that affect the global financial services industry."