Stability and innovation remain front and centre as the key
drivers for Guernsey's financial services sector, writes
Guernsey Finance Chief Executive Dominic Wheatley.
As a self-governing jurisdiction with its own parliament,
Guernsey is not faced with going through the same protracted Brexit
negotiations that the United Kingdom is currently presented with.
Indeed, our position as a British Crown Dependency means we are not
and, have never been, part of the United Kingdom or the European
Union.
Therefore, the fundamental principles of our established
relationship with both will not change because of Brexit, including
our access to the EU. The Guernsey Government and the island's
finance industry has already done the hard yards in terms of
negotiating and gaining non-EU 'third country' status
– a status which gives Guernsey guaranteed access to EU
Member States.
