Member profile
Dr. Geoffrey Hordern
Academy Fellows
Biography
Academy Fellow in offshore finance law. Authority on Cayman trust law. Leads research on AI for offshore deeds and SPV legal documents.
Research areas
Related projects
Institute research topics aligned with the broad areas identified in this biography; these are not confirmed personal project assignments.
Offshore Finance & Cross-border Capital AI
- AI-KYC/KYB & UBO identification
- Extract ultimate beneficial owners from registry files, trust deeds and nominee structures; screen OFAC/UN lists; output FIU-ready reports.
- Fund SPC/VCIC & ILS document intelligence
- Parse PPMs, subscription and custody agreements; flag clause risks; generate CIMA and BMA filings.
- Cross-border AML monitoring
- Risk models tuned to island remittance, fund and reinsurance flows, reducing correspondent-bank de-risking.
- CRS / AEOI tax compliance
- Classify tax residency and controlling persons, validate CRS returns, assist trusts and family offices.
- Digital assets, stablecoin & CBDC sandbox
- Sand Dollar and Cayman digital-asset frameworks; transaction tracing and policy simulation for regulators.
- Catastrophe reinsurance pricing
- Hurricane and sea-level data for ILS and sidecar loss simulation, policy parsing and claims automation.
- Caribbean Offshore Legal AI
- A jurisdiction-isolated legal model on Cayman, BVI trust and insurance law, with lawyer review loops.
- Financial data sovereignty & local compute
- Keep sensitive financial data on-island with privately deployed vertical models in sovereign data centers.