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Digital Forum to Host Roundtable on Digital Asset Custody

8th October 2025 The digital forum's logo - a leopard
The Commission will host its next Digital Forum roundtable on Wednesday 22 October at 2pm, focusing on Digital Asset Custody. The event will take place at the Commission’s Regency Court offices and is open to representatives of the Bailiwick’s financial services sector and other stakeholders with expertise or interest in this topic. This session follows previous roundtables on asset tokenisation...

ISIL (Da-esh) and Al-Qaida

8th October 2025
Please be advised that amendments have been made to the details of the following individuals who are designated under the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the UK regulations) – Name UN Reference Number OFSI ID Unique ID Abd El Kader Mahmoud Mohamed EL SAYED QDi.065 7128 AQD0094 Al-Azhar Ben Khalifa Ben Ahmed ROUINE QDi.150 7875 AQD0129 Gulmurod KHALIMOV QDi.372...

Sanctions Notice - Iran (Nuclear)

8th October 2025
Please be advised that the details of the following entities who are designated under the Iran (Sanctions) (Nuclear) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the UK regulations) have been amended : POST BANK OF IRAN (Group ID: 11215) SINA BANK (Group ID: 11186) The UK regulations are given effect within the Bailiwick under the Sanctions (Implementation of UK Regimes) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) (Brexit)...

Phishing attempt

7th October 2025
The Commission has become aware of a possible phishing attempt being sent purporting to be from the Commission Secretary, Alice Joy, using the domain “mail-guernseyfsc.com" If you have received such an email from the Commission, please do not reply or click on any links or attachments and instead forward it to [email protected]. The Commission sends its emails from the domain ending “ gfsc.gg.”...

MONEYVAL Presentations - September 2025

6th October 2025
During the month of September c.450 industry representatives collectively attended the 6 presentations run by the Commission, which shows a strong and continuing interest in the Bailiwick of Guernsey’s MONEYVAL evaluation and its findings. The slides from these presentations are now available here .

Judgment in the Court of Appeal

6th October 2025
The Commission welcomes this judgment from the Court of Appeal on the Providence matter. In it, the Court of Appeal highlights and confirms several aspects of the wrongdoing that our Senior Decision Maker originally determined to have taken place. Since that original decision, we have vigorously defended our Senior Decision Maker's findings of wrongdoing against challenges from several parties...

Sanctions Notice - International Counter-Terrorism

3rd October 2025
Please be advised that an amendment has been made in respect of the following entities who have been designated under the Counter-Terrorism (International Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the UK regulations): Rampage Productions (Unique ID: CTD0007) Embers of an Empire (Unique ID: CTD0008) Those referred to above remain subject to an asset freeze. They both appear on the consolidated list...

Sanctions Notice - Iran (Nuclear)

3rd October 2025
Please be advised that the details of the following entity who is designated under the Iran (Sanctions) (Nuclear) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the UK regulations) have been amended : EUROPAISCH-IRANISCHE HANDELSBANK AG (Group ID: 11512) The UK regulations are given effect within the Bailiwick under the Sanctions (Implementation of UK Regimes) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) (Brexit) Regulations, 2020 that...

Sanctions Notice - Iran

1st October 2025
Please be advised that, under the UN Iran snapback mechanism, the following designations have been reimposed under the Iran (Sanctions) (Nuclear) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (the UK regulations) : Name OFSI ID UN Reference Number Unique ID 7TH OF TIR 16102 IRe.001 INU0215 ABZAR BORESH KAVEH CO. (BK CO.) 16103 IRe.002 INU0216 AMIN INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX 16104 IRe.003 INU0217 AMMUNITION AND METALLURGY...