anguilla’s commercial registry 2010. registry performance and the year ahead: presented by lanston...
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REGISTRY PERFORMANCE AND THE YEAR AHEAD:
Presented by Lanston Connor, Registrar ofCommercial Activities
ACORN PERFORMANCE & FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS:Presented by Darin Silvera
Commercial Registry
Commercial Registry – Recent Developments
Annual Administration Fee for all Overseas Agents us$500
ACORN bandwidth increased from 512k to 2 meg
Bulk purchase Discount Policy (on hold)
Urgent need for Anguilla Finance
Foundations ACT (8 registrations)
Upgrading to ACORN 2.0
Overseas Agent Administration fee
Lots of administration necessary to set up and maintain overseas agents
Costs involved:
Digital certificates Phone calls etc Man hours
ACORN BANDWIDTH
Increased from 512k to 2 meg
ACORN users will be happy to have this increased bandwidth when accessing the system especially during peak hours
Necessary for the launch of ACORN 2.0
Commercial RegistryBULK PURCHASE
PLANS AMOUNT UNIT COST INCORP PERIOD
A 100 $200 1 MONTH
B 250 $175 3 MONTHS
C 500 $125 6 MONTHS
D 750 $75 9 MONTHS
E 1000 $25 1 YEAR
10 years over dueCritical issues are financing and staffing Annual industry maintenance fee ($500)
attached to 400 licensees paid through the FSC
Government to provide 1/3 of overall budget of ($300,000.00)
Administered by highly qualified marketing professional and assistant housed within theTourism Department for greater synergy.
Anguilla Finance
Marketing Marketing & networking budget 2010 $100,000.00
Continued utilization of OT Group Status.
Increased marketing in foundations oriented publications
Road shows to Asia Europe and Central America.
Conferences: STEP, ITPA, AOA, CCLW, INTA, Heckerling, CICA, WCF, CCAA WOC
2010 C R Marketing plans
Heckerling Conference in January
Road trip to ASIA in March CICA, AOA Anguilla convention in Shanghi
STEP Conference in May (co sponsored with GCSL)-
CCLW Conference in August
WCF,WOC
CCAA, ITPA Conference in December.
Year 2008 2009Revenue EC$6.1 M EC$6.7 M
Budget EC$1.5 M EC$1.7 M
ROI 333% 300%
Incorporations 2,415 2500
Company Managers 66 70
Overseas Agents 110 115
Registry Highlights
Year / Month 2007 2008 2009
January $ 443,362.13 $ 496,866.61 $ 490,334.28
February $ 445,261.69 $ 412,576.81 $ 772,156.57
March $ 668,009.41 $ 743,116.12 $ 777,624.84
April $ 436,034.29 $ 531,237.41 $ 482,524.88
May $ 396,177.79 $ 333,078.63 $ 390,366.97
June $ 740,919.93 $ 672,920.36 $ 618,836.99
July $ 419,988.93 $ 674,974.95 $ 564,090.65
August $ 313,808.35 $ 577,960.88 $ 454,226.61
September $ 545,721.73 $ 555,748.75 $ 387,503.68
October $ 509,442.68 $ 409,368.40 $ 603,821.24
November $ 432,289.92 $ 362,485.25 $ 304,729.44
December $ 758,122.93 $ 787,631.10 $ 803,567.89
TOTAL REVENUE (EC$) $ 6,109,139.78 $ 6,258,471.00 $ 6,649,784
Financial Performance: Revenue
* Projected Revenue
Company Registrations
An average of (207) two-hundred & seven companies per month and (2484) two thousand-four hundred & eighty four companies per year
There’s an average monthly increase of 25%
There’s an average yearly increase of 18%
Operational Performance
Total Yearly Incorporations by Type
Companies FY2001 FY2002 FY2003 FY2004 FY2005 FY2006 FY2007 FY2008FY 2009
IBC 867 704 569 898 1734 2781 2140 2152
Overseas IBC 154 47 76 114 73 116 75 30
Domestic Companies
178 202 168 194 301 275 301 211
LLC 23 27 39 41 43 59 74 89
Other 16 7 8 9 19 23 16 20
Total 1238 987 860 1256 2170 3254 2606 2413 2500
% Change 43.62% -20.27% -12.87% 46.05% 72.77% 49.95% -21.14% -2.49%
* Projected Incorporations
Operational Performance: Agent Overview
One Hundred & Ten (119) Overseas Agents from over 30 Countries in Total- There were Eight (9) OS Agents Registered in 2009
Sixty-Seven (77) Onshore Agents in Total– There were Three (10) Onshore Agents Registered in 2009
About DCIAXSO Global / DCI (Development Consortium
International)Core Competence (Software Development &
Systems Engineering)Client List (Integrity Commission, UNESCO,
IBM, Jamaica National, Grace Kennedy,…among others )
ACORN 2.0 Upgrade ConsiderationsClearing the backlog - Resolution of historic & current
RIR’s. Updating ACORN Software Components to a modern
architecture. Expand the functionality of ACORN horizontally to
facilitate registration of multiple entity types – not just companies.
Expand functional of ACORN vertically to facilitate increased efficiencies across the Anguilla Financial Services industry.
Performance - currently ACORN website struggles to handle 4 simultaneous users.
Training / Tutorials
Clearing The Backlog of RIR’sSome RIR’s on list since 1999List of critical updates needed are numerous
Streamline Chinese Character Company Incorporation (Simplified & Traditional) – Since March 2002
Generation of PDF doc’s – Since Nov 1999Software development team important
ACORN Software ComponentsMajor Software Components of ACORN
Database – Oracle 9i R2Registry Administration Screens – Oracle
Forms 4.5 Process Controller – VB6 ScriptsReport Templates – MS Word 2000 Mail MergeAgent Website – ASP Web PagesClient Digital Certificates - VeriSign
ACORN Component UpgradeMajor Software Components – Suggested
UpgradeDatabase – Oracle 9i R2 (Upgrade to Microsoft
SQL Server 2008 / PostgreSQL)Registry Administration Screens – Oracle
Forms 4.5 (Upgrade to Microsoft WPF)Process Controller – VB6 Scripts (Upgrade to
C#)Report Templates – MS Word 2000 Mail Merge
(Upgrade to report writers better suited for creating documents- like Crystal Reports)
Agent Website – ASP Web Pages (Replace with WPF)
Expanding ACORN HorizontallyACORN Currently manages companiesPossible additions include:
FoundationsMutual FundsVarious types of Insurance (Protected Cell, etc)Shipping & Yachting
Could be integrated with free WIPO system that manages Trademarks & Patents
PerformanceWith expanded functionality ACORN there
will be a need to be able to handle much more than 4 simultaneous users.
We will seek to determine how additional features will affect performance with load testing and seek to optimize the performance and scalability of ACORN 2.0.
TrainingOne complaint of Agents is the lack of
tutorials to bring new workers up to speed.One way to address this with Flash videos
ACORN Upgrade ScheduleFirst Month
Extensive Hardware TuningDarin Silvera on island (Establishing
momentum of project)Progressive upgrades over a 16 month periodOptional focus on critical upgrades in current
version first.