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Instruction Number 03/2014 for Financial Services Businesses and Prescribed Businesses

1st August 2014
​The Commission is today issuing Instruction 03/2014 for both financial services businesses and prescribed businesses. The instruction has been issued as a result of amendments made to the sanctions measures against Afghanistan and Al-Qaida to impose a reporting requirement on businesses. The existing Handbooks are in the course of being reviewed and therefore to minimise the impact, and to avoid...

Instruction (Number 02/2014) for Financial Services Businesses and Prescribed Businesses

9th July 2014
The Commission is today issuing Instruction (Number 02/2014) for Financial Services Businesses and Prescribed Businesses, copies of which can be accessed on the FC&A Section of the Commission's website. The log of Business from Sensitive Sources & Notices document has been updated to enable identification of the changes applied. Instruction (Number 02/2014) for Financial Services Businesses...

Instruction No. M 01/2014 for Financial Services Businesses and Instruction No. M 01/2014 for Prescribed Businesses

3rd June 2014
​The Commission is today issuing Instruction Number M 01/2014 for Financial Services Businesses and Instruction Number M 01/2014 for Prescribed Businesses, copies of which can be accessed from the FC&A section of the Commission's website: Instruction M 01/2014 for Financial Services Businesses and Instruction M 01/2014 for Prescribed Businesses 3 June 2014

AML/CFT Legislation and Handbooks

23rd April 2013
Further to the news item posted on the Commission's website on 10 April, the Policy Council has made the Criminal Justice (Proceeds of Crime) (Financial Services Businesses) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) (Amendment) (No 2) Regulations, 2013 and the Criminal Justice (Proceeds of Crime) (Legal Professionals, Accountants and Estate Agents) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) (Amendment) (No 2) Regulations, 2013...

AML/CFT Legislation and Handbooks

10th April 2013
The Commission has noted that the Criminal Justice (Proceeds of Crime) (Financial Services Businesses) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013 have resulted in an inaccurate cross-reference in regulation 5(1)(d) of the regulations being amended. In regulation 5(1)(d) the reference to regulation 3(1)(c) should now be to regulation 3(2)(a). The making of the Criminal Justice (Proceeds...

Amendments to the AML/CFT Legislation and the Handbooks

28th March 2013
The Policy Council has signed the following amendment regulations, which came into force today: The Criminal Justice (Proceeds of Crime) (Financial Services Businesses) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) (Amendment) Regulations, 2013 The Criminal Justice (Proceeds of Crime) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1999 (Amendment of Schedules 1 and 2) Regulations, 2013 The Criminal Justice (Proceeds of Crime) (Legal...

Update to Appendix C of the Handbooks

24th December 2012
In advance of most of the changes to the AML/CFT framework referred to in our media release of 12 November 2012, the Commission has today amended Appendix C to the Handbook for Financial Services Businesses on Countering Financial Crime and Terrorist Financing and the Handbook for Legal Professionals, Accountants and Estate Agents on Countering Financial Crime and Terrorist Financing. A version of...