The VAITOS Act was brought into force on the 7 February 2022.

Gibraltar's regulatory standards and framework for the regulation of virtual asset service providers (VASPs)

Ontario's Minister of Finance, Charles Sousa, tabled the government's pre-election fiscal plan on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, the 2018 Ontario Budget: A Plan for Care and Community.

Guernsey's new Lending, Credit and Finance Law, which comes into effect this summer, will provide a credible platform on which fintech businesses can be launched from Guernsey.

BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) has issued a reminder to BVI companies whose financial year is a calendar year that the 9-month extension for filing initial annual financial returns (annual returns)...

The federal and Ontario pension regulators are adjusting their policies by addressing plan administration issues arising from the COVID-19 crisis.

Regulators in key offshore centres are actively engaging Web3 structures.

In recent times the use of technology in the provision of financial services has become well established, with the likes of crowdfunding platforms and 'Peer-to-Peer' (P2P) lenders already considered fairly mainstream.

Guernsey Green Finance has welcomed the news that an application has been accepted from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) ...

Two new fund products have been added in the British Virgin Islands under the Securities and Investment Business (Incubator and Approved Funds) Regulations, 2015 (the "Regulations"); the incubator fund and the approved fund.

Guernsey's numbers are staggering. Banks based in the Island hold more than £92bn worth of deposits; the local fiduciary sector has more than £200bn of assets in trust; the value of investment funds under management and administration is in excess of £130bn; and the gross assets of Guernsey’s international insurance industry is nearly £15bn. Not bad for a 24 square mile Island with a population of 60,000.

In the year since the Lehman failure, we have seen quite a number of regulatory initiatives relating to structured product sales in the EU and in Asia. We are devoting the next few issues of this newsletter to a review of the principal developments affecting the structured products market in the EU.

Key decision makers within the Government, regulators, funding agencies, corporate and legal service providers, as well as private sector financial technology (fintech) interests ...

The British Virgin Islands is a United Kingdom Overseas Territory located approximately 60 miles east of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.

The Guernsey Financial Services Commission ("GFSC") has updated its Handbook on Countering Financial Crime and Terrorist Financing (the "Handbook") to cover virtual asset...

Carl Rosumek, Director of the Investment Business Division of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC), looks at the interplay between international developments and Guernsey’s regulatory regime.

Last week, the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) announced that it intends to permit certain investment funds to be established and domiciled in Jersey on a "registration only" basis, beginning in January 2008.

On June 27, 2016, the Financial Services Commission ("FSC") announced the proposed amendments to the Presidential Decree to the Financial Investment Services and Capital Markets Act (FSCMA).

The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) has now published its 2023/2024 Annual Report.