Embracing change

Looking back over the past decade and a half, it is clear that adaptability has been one of the keys to success in the offshore finance industry. Offshore centres have proliferated around the world, often then shrinking back in the harsh glare of ever-more vigilant anti-money-laundering authorities. Workers are more globally mobile than ever, but modern communications render distance increasingly irrelevant. And governments, of course, move the goalposts with depressing regularity in order to shore up their own positions. Lillian Boyle, managing director of Scottish Provident Internationa...