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Guernsey Finance to update industry on 2020 plans

Progress made during 2019 at Guernsey Finance, the promotional agency for the island’s financial services industry, will be highlighted at an open event later this week. The agency’s annu...

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Update approved for Guernsey insolvency law

Changes in Guernsey’s Insolvency Law have been approved by the island’s government, the States of Guernsey. Amendments to the island’s 2008 Companies (Guernsey) Law will make Guernsey an ev...

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New London Representative ensures continuity for Guernsey-London relationship

Guernsey Finance’s appointment of a new London Representative will build on positive steps taken to enhance business connections in the capital. Christine Gill was introduced to Guerns...

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20 February 2019

Plus ca change – five unchanged Guernsey certainties during a year of global turmoil

Dr Andy Sloan, Deputy Chief Executive, Strategy, at Guernsey Finance, suggests five longstanding strengths of Guernsey which still apply in today’s turbulent world. A year ago, I was writing ...

Published

20 February 2019

Data Security: WM Morrison Appeal

In the latest contribution for Compliance Matters by experts in Guernsey's legal sector, Mourant Senior Associate Sally French revisits a previously-discussed data protection case and i...

Published

20 February 2019

Treat data like water, not gold

Financial service regulators are increasingly willing to involve themselves in the area of data protection. When they do so, the attitude they take to imposing punishment ought to remind us of...

Published

05 February 2019

GFSC open to cross-border testing for new financial services products

Guernsey’s financial services regulator, the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) is involved in a new cross-border testing pilot for firms wishing to test innovative products a...

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05 February 2019

TISE receives recognition from US securities regulator

The International Stock Exchange (TISE) has been approved as a Designated Offshore Securities Market (DOSM) by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The recognition from the feder...

Published

31 January 2019

First UK trading company lists on Guernsey-based TISE

The Guernsey-based international Stock Exchange has secured its first listing of a UK trading company. UK floor coverings distributor Likewise Group plc raised £7 million through a share iss...

Published

11 January 2019

TISE breaks records with new listings in 2018

There were 865 new listings on The International Stock Exchange (TISE) during 2018. This represents an increase of 160 (22.7%) on 2017 and is the largest number of securities listed in a calend...

Published

10 January 2019

Moving from attack to defence

Guernsey Finance Chief Executive Dominic Wheatley makes the case for the defence of specialist global financial centres. One of the challenges of promoting an offshore financial services cent...

Published

20 December 2018

Substance requirements for Guernsey

Jo Huxtable, tax partner at Deloitte in Guernsey and Chair of the tax sub-committee of the Guernsey Society of Chartered and Certified Accountants New substance requirements will come into for...

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17 December 2018