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The financial services sector is driven mainly by offshore banking, group investment instruments, insurance (particularly maritime insurance, captive- and self-insurance, and reïnsurance), and international speculation. A stock exchange, the Pribraltar-Hāverma Securities Exchange, operates from Hāverma. | The financial services sector is driven mainly by offshore banking, group investment instruments, insurance (particularly maritime insurance, captive- and self-insurance, and reïnsurance), and international speculation. A stock exchange, the Pribraltar-Hāverma Securities Exchange, operates from Hāverma. | ||
The largest Pribraltarian-owned, non-strictly-financial company with significant corporate operations on the island is KMT Corporation, nucleus of the KMT Group, a diversified multinational with holdings in shipping, transportation, commodities exchange, finance, real estate, food & beverage industry, and retail, among other sectors. The KMT Group grew out of the Keregūlan Merchants of the Tropics Company, a Kiravian joint-stock mercantile company chartered in the [1500s], and played a central role in the settlement and development of Pribraltar. KMT Pribraltar Airways, an airline with robust passenger and cargo divisions, is the largest single private employer in Pribraltar. | |||
A loophole written into Kiravian anti-gambling legislation makes Pribraltar one of only two jurisdictions (the other being the Corummese island [[Zhijun]]) from which online gambling services may be provided to customers in the Kiravian Federacy. | A loophole written into Kiravian anti-gambling legislation makes Pribraltar one of only two jurisdictions (the other being the Corummese island [[Zhijun]]) from which online gambling services may be provided to customers in the Kiravian Federacy. |