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This briefing note is intended to provide an answer to the question that has been raised within the industry – "what could Brexit mean for Gibraltar insurers exercising passporting rights?"

There is huge potential for DLT to cut costs and improve the effectiveness of KYC and AML compliance regulations for insurers.

On the 15 June 2016, Nigel Feetham, partner of Hassans, published an article on a judgment concerning PCC cells recently handed down by the Courts of Guernsey.

Brexit was the most serious threat the Gibraltar financial services industry had ever faced. The 2016 U.K. Brexit referendum result cast ...

Gibraltar implemented Protected Cell Company legislation in 2001 and was the first European jurisdiction to do so. Since then Malta has implemented a PCC Act and the UK itself has introduced its own regime for Open Ended Investment Funds.

Here are a few thoughts on the Gibraltar insurance market as we push into 2018. Hope readers find it interesting and if you have any questions please do let me know.

In answer to the question, "not quite". The use of Administration in Gibraltar for insolvent companies is a fairly recent, and in the case of insurance companies, an innovative use of this insolvency procedure.

PCC legislation was first enacted in Guernsey in 1996. This was primarily to encourage growth of the captive insurance industry.

The Coronavirus is potentially a life changing event in every sense and many businesses and policy makers will be asking the same question "how do we best manage, if not survive this?".

Last month this column offered up my now traditional "goodbye" to one year and "hello" to the next.

Despite the notable uncertainty concerning the United Kingdom and Gibraltar's future trading relationship with the European Union, there are a number of upcoming developments which the Gibraltar insurance industry and its stakeholders should be monitoring.

Within hours of the Government of Gibraltar announcing that the first ILS type transaction had been completed through Gibraltar, Hassans’ involvement in this landmark matter was cited internationally in three of the global insurance industry’s leading titles, positioning the firm as the key legal advisors within this important arena.

Regular readers may remember that in past articles, I have written about several aspects of the insurance industry.