Date of prohibition order, law under which made and prohibited functions: The Protection of Investors (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1987from 27 November 2009: director, controller, partner or manager in relation to a controlled investment business. The Banking Supervision (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1994from 27 November 2009: director, controller, partner or manager in relation to a deposit...
Instructions for financial services businesses and prescribed businesses
Instructions for financial services businesses and prescribed businesses
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...
International Monetary Fund Clearance Commission
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...
Bogus States of Alderney and Guernsey Financial Services Commission document
It has been brought to the Commission's attention that the above-named entity is operating a web site with an address of www.crystalixlondon.com.The web site indicates that CRYSTALIX LONDON provide offshore multi–manger funds which are structured as Protected Cell Companies (PCCs) domiciled in Guernsey. The purpose of this notice is to warn potential investors that the company is not licensed...
Crystalix London Limited / Crystalix London Asset Management Company
The above named company is a company incorporated under the laws of The Bahamas with registration number 34,965B. The purpose of this notice is to clarify that Guernsey Corporate Secretaries Limited is not a Guernsey company, nor is it licensed, authorised or in any way regulated by the Commission to carry out corporate secretarial or other regulated fiduciary activities under The Regulation of...
Guernsey Corporate Secretaries Limited
It has been brought to the Commission's attention that a website has been operating using the trading name of Reality Millions. The site claims that an entity registered as an "International Business and Investment Trust Company" under the name RM Private Trust, also known as ITBG Securities Underwriters Corporation, has its home jurisdiction in the Channel Islands. The Commission wishes to...
Reality Millions
It has been brought to the Commission’s attention that the website www.sigmaforex.com associated to Sigma Forex contains a link to the Commission’s own website and implies that the company complies with Guernsey regulations. The Commission wishes to advise that Sigma Forex is not licensed, registered or in any way authorised to conduct any financial services business in or from within the...
Sigma Forex (European Forex Trading)
Currently when Guernsey insurers, including captives, accept reinsurance from EU domiciled insurers, the EU insurer is normally able to take account of the ceded reinsurance in determining its own solvency capital requirements. Under the EU Solvency II Directive, which will come into force in the third quarter of 2012, EU insurers will only be able to take full account of reinsurance ceded to...