Gibraltar is a bit of an anachronism, a British Colony in Europe in Spain’s very back yard and yet not quite British; a member of the EU yet no Value Added Tax (VAT); part of mainland Europe yet a jurisdiction boasting Common Law making it quite a unique offshore ensconced where it is amongst the so-called P.I.G.S. countries (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain); Common Law makes it an efficient jurisdiction from which to do business and it has a Gibraltarfinance centre to promote and encourage investment in Gibraltar which in 2007 is riding the crest of an investment wave and the GibraltarGovernment has been very proactive about Gibraltar's future and at the forefront of this process. Online gaming has been particularly successful over the last 4 years and Gibraltar probably leads the world in this area at the moment, with America having attempted –unsuccessfully- to protect its own internal market by emergency legislation.
The AIBW, the Association of Introducing Brokers Worldwide, has two fundamental aims which underpin its mission: To promote, to defend and to support the role of Introducing Brokers (IBs); to promote, to defend and to support Gibraltar as a modern offshore jurisdiction of the highest quality.