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Jersey continues to highlight its expertise in key markets, expanding its reach internationally while announcing innovative measures to meet market demands.

Jersey's commercial ties with countries in the Gulf region are strong.

It is a common problem, ensuring your deposit account interest rate is keeping pace with the market.

Jersey’s financial services industry is ideally placed to support the needs of corporate and institutional business and private clients in Greater China.

The trust laws of Jersey and Guernsey are very similar for two main reasons.

Since 2003, the Jersey Financial Services Commission (the "Commission") has been integrating existing regulatory laws into the Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998 as amended (the "Financial Services Law") in order to provide a "one-stop shop" that will be easier to understand and simplify compliance.

Jersey has never had, contrary to the belief held by some, banking secrecy enshrined in statute. It does have a statutory regime of data protection and client confidentiality is, of course, an important principle and fundamental to the relationship between banker and client.

Baker & Partners' Jersey team contributes to the inaugural Global Legal Post Enforcement of Judgments Guide, offering practical insights into cross-border dispute resolution and judgment enforcement across multiple jurisdictions. The comprehensive guide examines Jersey's evolving enforcement framework, from traditional customary law remedies to modern creditor-friendly procedures, providing essential guidance for practitioners navigating international recovery proceedings.

The recent case of Mirpuri v. Bank of India [2010] JRC 129 is one of the very few cases to come before Jersey’s Royal Court which touches on the Security Interests (Jersey) Law 1983 ("the 1983 Law").

Establishing a Jersey company is an excellent choice for Indian businesses wishing to set up a company outside India as a listed vehicle or a holding company for non-Indian assets, or to raise debt capital.

Draft regulations were published in June for the establishment of a depositor compensation scheme for accounts held in banks in Jersey.

The recent banking crisis has highlighted the fact that Jersey did not in the past have a depositors compensation scheme equivalent to that in the United Kingdom.

Jersey has an excellent reputation in the banking industry with 45 banking license holders, including branches and subsidiaries of some of the world’s leading banks.

Rather than applying the English common law concept of set-off, some Jersey cases suggest that the local courts should instead apply an analogous Jersey concept of ‘compensation’ as referred to in the Privy Council case of Dyson and Another v Godfray 1884 9 App. Cases 726 and more recently in Guidon Investments Limited v de Carteret (1980) JJ 109.

Standard Chartered consolidated its two Jersey banking entities into a single operating platform for its Jersey business in September 2013.

On 25 April 2008, the Jersey Royal Court handed down an important judgment (“Re: Representation Gichuru”) detailing the options for the customer of a financial institution whose funds have been subject to an informal freeze following the filing of a Suspicious Activity Report, and where the police have refused to consent to payments on the account being made.

There is always a temptation to read too much into statistics, to extrapolate from them conclusions which, on closer inspection, aren't true.