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Please be advised that the United Nations Security Council Committee has added one individual to the ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaida Organisations financial sanctions regime. Jamal Hussein Hassan Zeiniye  has been added to the consolidated list and is subject to an asset freeze. Under section 13 of the Sanctions (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2018 (the Sanctions Law), this amendment is deemed to have...

Please be advised that two individuals and four entities have been added to the list of sanctioned entities under the EU’s Russia sanctions targeting “actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine”; these are implemented by Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1367 and are implemented within the Bailiwick by the Territorial Integrity etc...

The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has today issued a consultation paper seeking views from interested parties on proposed amendments to the Insurance Business (Solvency) Rules, 2015. The proposed amendments would introduce a “Green Discount”, which would reduce the capital requirements applicable to the green fixed income assets of life insurers. Additional measures would be put in place...

During the month of September the Commission ran ten interactive sector specific workshops to just under 400 attendees in Guernsey and Alderney, to assist firms in developing their mitigation of the money laundering and terrorist financing risks to their business as identified in the National Risk Assessment. The Commission representatives provided an overview of the inherent money laundering and...

The Commission wishes to remind all financial services businesses and prescribed businesses (with the exception of personal fiduciary licensees) that the Financial Crime Risk Return (“the Return”) is due for submission by 31 October 2020. The Return can be found through the Commission’s Online Submissions Portal, located here: https://submit.gfsc.gg/ Further information on the background to the...

The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has issued today a Consultation Paper seeking views from interested parties on proposed Cyber Security Rules and an accompanying Guidance Note for all licenced entities under the various supervisory laws. A copy of the Consultation Paper, Draft Rules and the Draft Guidance can be found here: https://www.gfsc.gg/commission/legislation-and-guidance...

The Commission is pleased to announce a further appointment to the Panel of Senior Decision Makers (SDMs) which the Commission has established for the purpose of considering and determining those enforcement cases which are not settled between the parties and the Commission. The new appointee as an SDM is Mr Russell Finch OBE who, until recently, was the first Judge of the Royal Court in Guernsey...

The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has issued today a Consultation Paper seeking views from interested parties on a proposed Guidance Note for Custodians of open-ended collective investment schemes made under the Protection of Investors (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1987 (the “PoI Law”). A copy of the Consultation Paper and the Draft Guidance can be found here: https://www.gfsc.gg...