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Butterfield CIMA licence recorded for Butterfield

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Issuing authority
The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority
Jurisdiction
Cayman Islands
Licence type
Financial Service

This is Wikilix's record of a licence issued by The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. It sets out what the register says, what we checked, and what the authority's own rules protect.

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RecordModified Nov 8, 2026

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The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority No number recorded

Recorded from the firm's own disclosure. Not yet checked against the register.

Holder
The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited logoThe Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited
Issuing authority
The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority logoThe Cayman Islands Monetary Authority
Name on the register
Butterfield Bank (Cayman) Limited
Jurisdiction
Cayman Islands flagCayman Islands
Licence type
Financial Service

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What we checked

Nobody has adjudicated this licence yet. It is recorded here as claimed, not as confirmed.

Wikilix check
Not checked
Authority strength
Tier 3
Jurisdiction
Cayman Islands
Last checked
Never

Verification note

Licensed to conduct banking and investment business by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, per the group's own Legal and Disclaimers page. A banking and investment-business authorisation, not a retail forex or CFD dealing licence. No licence number is published on the group's own pages and the authority's register was not consulted for this record.

Nobody at Wikilix has looked this licence up on the official register yet. Everything above comes from the record as supplied; treat it as a claim until you have checked it yourself.

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The register

What the authority publishes

Printed as the register prints it. A field that is missing here is one nobody has recorded, not one the register leaves blank.

Issued to
Butterfield Bank (Cayman) Limited
Licence type (Wikilix classification)
Financial Service
The authority

About CIMA

The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority is the authority that issued this licence, and the jurisdiction it applies in is Cayman Islands.

Full name
The Cayman Islands Monetary Authority
Jurisdiction
Cayman Islands
Strength
Tier 3Lighter-touch supervision; protections vary and are often limited.
Established
1997
Oversight
A government or statutory body
Firms we track under it
1 firm
Regulates
Forex, Bond, Stocks, Options, Derivatives, Commodity, Securities, Futures
Licences it issues
Securities Investment Business Licence
Typical cost of a licence
USD 30000-50000
Public register
Searchable by the public
Transparency
Medium

CIMA is classed as an offshore regime. An offshore registration can be entirely legitimate, but it typically means lower capital requirements, no compensation scheme, and a complaint route that is harder to use from abroad.

Protection

What this licence protects

CIMA's own rules for the firms it authorises.

  • No compensation scheme
  • Client money kept separate
  • Complaints routeCIMA Complaints
  • Maximum leverage1:500
This describes the authority's regime, not how Butterfield applies it.
The holder

Who holds this licence

The licence above is recorded against Butterfield. A licence is issued to a legal company, so the companies below are what you would search a corporate register for.

Butterfield logo
Broker
The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited
Named on the register
Butterfield Bank (Cayman) Limited
Based in
Bermuda
Operating
Above 20 years
Wikilix score
74.1the firm’s overall score, not a rating of this licence

Recorded companies

The name this register printed matches Butterfield Bank (Cayman) Limited below.

  • The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son LimitedBermuda · Local Company Limited by Shares · Reg. 2106 · Oct 22, 1904
  • Butterfield Mortgages LimitedUnited Kingdom · Private limited Company · Reg. 00338594 · Mar 30, 1938
  • Butterfield Bank (Channel Islands) LimitedGuernsey · Reg. 21061
  • Butterfield Bank (Cayman) LimitedMatches the registerCayman Islands
  • Butterfield Trust (Asia) LimitedSingapore · Reg. 201719034R
  • Butterfield Trust (Guernsey) LimitedGuernsey · Reg. 31645
  • Butterfield Trust (Switzerland) LimitedSwitzerland
  • Butterfield Trust (Bahamas) LimitedBahamas
  • Butterfield Asset Management LimitedBermuda
Provenance

Where this record came from

Every date below has already happened. We do not publish a promised next-update date, because we do not schedule per-licence re-checks.

Last checked by Wikilix
Never — nobody has looked this entry up yet
Record last edited
When this entry was last changed in our database, which may be a correction rather than a change at the register.
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Also on record

Other licences Butterfield holds

3 other licences are on record for Butterfield.

Frequently Asked Questions

Questions about this licence

Answered from this register entry and the authority’s own record.

Most Popular Questions
Butterfield holds this CIMA licence. A licence on record means the authority published an entry; it is not an endorsement.
Nobody at Wikilix has looked this entry up on the CIMA register yet, so treat it as claimed rather than confirmed. That is a gap in our coverage, not a finding against the licence.
The CIMA register prints it under Butterfield Bank (Cayman) Limited, not Butterfield. Licences are often held by a subsidiary rather than the trading brand, which is why searching a register for the brand alone can return nothing.
Wikilix rates CIMA tier 3. Supervision is lighter-touch and client protections vary.
Yes, CIMA is classed as an offshore regime. That can be a legitimate registration, but it usually means lower capital requirements, no compensation scheme, and a complaint route that is harder to use from abroad.
Butterfield has 3 other licences on record with Wikilix, across 3 jurisdictions. They are listed further down this page.
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