Warnings

The Financial Services Commission (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1987, as amended (the "Financial Services Commission Law") The Insurance Managers and Insurance Intermediaries (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2002 as amended (the "Insurance Managers and Intermediaries Law") The Protection of Investors (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 1987 (the "Protection of Investors Law") The Guernsey Financial Services...

​The Commission has noticed that in recent years there has been an increasing number of occurrences of fraud being committed against customers of Guernsey licensees where the customer is based in southern Africa. Post, and possibly emails, from licensees are being intercepted and details then being used by fraudsters. It has also been noted that fraudsters have increasingly directed the licensees...

The Commission has noticed an increase in the incidents of genuine websites being cloned to support fraudsters in committing various types of scams. The offending sites have included clones of legitimate licensees and investment funds. Licensees are encouraged to regularly check that their websites have not been cloned in such a fashion. If a cloned site is discovered, please contact the...

The Financial Services Commission (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1987, as amended (the "Financial Services Commission Law") The Banking Supervision (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1994 (as amended) The Guernsey Financial Services Commission (the "Commission") issues this notice pursuant to section 2(2)(e) of the Financial Services Commission Law. The Commission wishes to inform the public that Dan...

The Financial Services Commission (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1987, as amended (the "Financial Services Commission Law") The Banking Supervision (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1994 (as amended) The Guernsey Financial Services Commission (the "Commission") issues this notice pursuant to section 2(2)(e) of the Financial Services Commission Law. The Commission wishes to inform the public that the 6.75...

The Financial Services Commission (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1987, as amended (the "Financial Services Commission Law") The Insurance Managers and Insurance Intermediaries (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2002 as amended (the "Insurance Managers and Intermediaries Law") EON Finance Brokers ("Eon") The Guernsey Financial Services Commission (the "Commission") issues this notice pursuant to its powers...

It has been brought to the Commission’s attention that the above-named entity is operating a web site with an address of www.templarvintners.com. The website includes downloads of articles purporting to have appeared in well known publications. One such article includes an advertisement for The Templar Vintners Fine Wine Fund in which it claims to be authorised by the Commission as a Class B...

The Commission has had a document brought to its attention with the letterhead titled "International Monetary Fund Clearance Commission" which claims to have an address in Guernsey. The Guernsey Financial Services Commission wishes to confirm that there is no such entity of this name and the document appears to form part of a fraud scheme. Anyone receiving such a document is advised to cease...

​The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has recently had a copy of a letter brought to its attention which contains details of both the States of Alderney and the Commission on the same headed paper. The letter, which is titled "Urgent Notice", refers to a large sum of money for a named individual and that a security deposit should be paid to a certain bank account. This is to warn anyone who...