For supervisors and regulatory professionals, sweeping criticisms of offshore centres do not help. In today's financial world, offshore centres do play a pivotal role. Thus regulators, central bankers and professional advisers need authoritative factual information about how they do business and, crucially, how they are regulated. The contributors to Financial Regulation in Offshore Centres - most of them leading regulators themselves - are best placed to deliver this. Over recent years offshore centres, and the way in which they supervise financial institutions, have come under intense scrutiny. In response, many offshore centres have moved quickly to update their safeguards and adopt international standards in areas like money laundering and banking supervision. Financial Regulation in Offshore Centres offers an authoritative guide to the legal and regulatory environment of leading offshore centres, and examines the current initiatives concerning them. The 16 leading OFC supervisors who have contributed, provide up-to-date detailed briefings on the key features of their own jurisdictions, covering; major business lines; the legal and fiscal framework, and how they approach their job as supervisors. Similarly, the institutional critics of offshore finance explain their approach. In addition, detailed appendicies describe the leading offshore centres and the authorities responsible for them - profiling over 60 agencies in 33 jurisdictions.