Investment

The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has today issued the Regulated Investment Exchange Operator Rules and Guidance, 2024 (the “RIEO Rules”), made under the Protection of Investors (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2020 (the “POI Law”). These rules will come into operation on 31 January 2025. This follows the public consultation in respect of the RIEO Rules, which closed on 12 November 2024. The...

The Commission has today issued an amended version of its Explanatory Note regarding the surrender of the authorisation or registration of collective investment schemes. The amendments reflect feedback received from industry and practical experience of implementation over the one-year period since the publication of the original Explanatory Note and provide for a more flexible approach to the...

Following publication by the Royal Court, on 21 November 2024, we are making available the judgment of Lieutenant-Bailiff Hazel Marshall KC in the case of Nicholas Walton Hofgren and the Guernsey Financial Services Commission. The Commission welcomes the judgment which dismisses Mr Hofgren’s grounds of appeal. We intend to issue a public statement on this matter in due course.

On 30 July 2024, the Commission issued a Discussion Paper on the Future of Sustainability Reporting in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. The consultation period ran for approximately 12 weeks and closed on 25 October 2024. The Commission is very pleased to have received a material number of responses from a broad range of stakeholders including licensees, industry representative bodies and other on and...

The Guernsey Financial Services Commission was pleased to host the plenary meeting of the International Organisation of Securities Commission’s (IOSCO) European Regional Committee (ERC) in Guernsey today (Wednesday 18 September 2024). More than 55 people attended the committee meeting, with the committee having more than 50 member jurisdictions. During the meeting, ERC members addressed and shared...

The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has today issued a Consultation Paper seeking comments from interested parties on the creation of a new set of rules and associated guidance to be made under the Protection of Investors (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2020 (“the POI Law”) – The Regulated Investment Exchange Operator Rules and Guidance (“the RIEO Rules”). The RIEO Rules are intended to...

The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has today issued a discussion paper seeking views on international sustainability reporting in the Bailiwick. The paper is intended to enable the Commission, in discussion with the finance industry, to explore the next steps that the Bailiwick of Guernsey can take to meet the challenges presented by sustainability and climate change risk. This discussion...

The Commission has today formally become a signatory of IOSCO’s Enhanced Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (EMMoU). It becomes the sixteenth regulator to be permitted to become a signatory, after a rigorous multi-year evaluation process overseen by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The EMMoU was designed by IOSCO (The International Organization of Securities Commissions [1]) to...

The Commission supports innovation and recognises the role tokenisation could play in improving efficiency within capital markets. The Commission is aware of growing interest, locally and internationally, in the application of this technology within the funds sector and this is an area of focus for fund regulators globally. The Commission’s overall position is to encourage technology which...