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Commission consults on Fees for 2022

16th July 2021
The Commission today launches a consultation paper on proposals for increasing the licence fees paid by firms. The consultation period will close on Wednesday 8 September. The Commission’s consultation paper is available here . Feedback may be provided via the Consultation Hub section of the Commission’s website: https://consultationhub.gfsc.gg Taking into account the Commission’s current and...

Commission consults on the proposed re-issue of statutory instruments

21st April 2021
The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has issued today three consultation papers (“CPs”) seeking views from interested parties as part of the implementation of the Revision of Laws Project. The first CP provides for revision to regulations and rules made under the Regulation of Fiduciaries, Administration Businesses and Company Directors, etc (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2020 (the “new...

Distribution of 2021 annual fees to Licensees and Registrants

14th December 2020
The Commission has now sent its 2021 annual fees to all licensees and registrants by email. If you have not receive d an invoice by email you should contact [email protected] quoting the entity name and the GFSC reference number, which can be found on our website ( Regulated Entities and Registered Entities ). You may also contact this email address to confirm the validity of an emailed invoice...

Changes to how the Commission distributes Annual Fee Invoices to Licensees and Registrants

30th November 2020
Licensees and registrants are advised that the Commission is changing the way it distributes its annual license fee invoices, commencing with the 2021 annual fees which are due to be sent out next month. Generic email addresses for all regulated and registered entities have been prepared which will be used to send out the annual fee invoices for 2021. If you wish to check which email address the...

Gratuity Schemes

17th November 2020
The States of Guernsey Annual Budget was published on Monday 16 November 2020 and can be found here . Within the Annual Budget it is proposed to make a change in respect of Gratuity Schemes and their treatment under section 40(nn) of the Income Tax (Guernsey) Law, 1975. The proposal would make a technical change to the exemption under section 40(nn) of the Income Tax (Guernsey) Law, 1975 to...

Commission consults on Fees for 2021

4th August 2020
The Commission today launches a consultation paper on proposals for increasing the licence fees paid by firms (please click here for a copy of the consultation paper). The consultation period will close on Tuesday 15 September. The proposals are for an increase of 2.1% across all sectors, based upon Guernsey’s RPI, together with the introduction of a modest fee for fast track applications of £500...

Financial Crime Risk Return 2020

26th June 2020
The Financial Crime Risk Return for the reporting period 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 (the “Return”) will be available for completion on the Online Submissions Portal in July 2020. The submission deadline is 31 October 2020. Following the Commission's previous announcements, updates made to the 2020 Return include additional questions regarding the different classifications of politically exposed...

Handbook on Countering Financial Crime and Terrorist Financing

19th June 2020
The Commission has today, issued in final form, the revised Handbook on Countering Financial Crime and Terrorist Financing (“the Handbook”). The Commission has made these amendments, to the Handbook, in order to take into account the Bailiwick of Guernsey’s National Risk Assessment (“NRA”) on money laundering (“ML”) and the financing of terrorism (“FT”) which was published in January 2020. These...

Resumption of onsite inspections

8th June 2020
The Commission’s Financial Crime Division is recommencing its routine financial crime inspections to firms with immediate effect. Routine inspections were suspended on 19 March 2020 to enable firms to deal with the immediate operational impact of the coronavirus lockdown. Financial Crime inspections are resuming now as the finance industry has demonstrated its resilience and firms have generally...