Discovered by Columbus on his fourth voyage to America, the Cayman Islands were the definitive center of pirate activity in the Caribbean Sea,during the seventeenth century.

Today, this tax haven of fifty thousand people has become the world’s fifth largest financial center.

Surprising parallels can be drawn between the Cayman Islands of old times and its current status: pirates and executives doing as they have always done, looking for a good place to hide their treasures.