Upcoming Cayman Islands Virtual Assets Sector Survey – National Risk Assessment 2025-26 (2025-10-17)

Summary

This is a General Industry Notice from CIMA announcing a Virtual Assets Sector Survey being conducted jointly with the Office for Strategic Action on Illicit Finance (OSAIF) as part of the upcoming National Risk Assessment (NRA) for 2025-26. The survey is intended to gather information from entities engaged in virtual asset-related activities to help CIMA and OSAIF better understand sector operations, exposures, and risks for AML/CFT purposes.

• Distribution: The survey link was distributed by the Authority on 17 October 2025 via email from NRA_Survey@cima.ky to relevant entities.
• Action required: Recipients are asked to complete and submit the survey by the stated deadline.
• Confidentiality: CIMA states that all responses will be treated as strictly confidential and used solely for NRA purposes, with no identifying information disclosed or published.

This notice is informational/participatory in nature rather than a binding rule change, but it does impose a specific action (survey completion) with a firm deadline on entities that receive the survey link.

Key obligations

• Entities engaged in virtual asset-related activities that receive the survey link must complete and submit the survey by 24 October 2025 at 12:00PM.
• Entities with questions about the survey should contact OSAIF_Coordination@gov.ky.

Applies to

entities engaged in virtual asset-related activities

Deadlines

• 17 October 2025: Survey distributed by CIMA via link sent from NRA_Survey@cima.ky to all relevant entities.
• 24 October 2025 at 12:00PM: Deadline for submission of completed Virtual Assets Sector Survey responses.