Combating Financial Crime – more than just AML
Money Laundering (ML) and know your customer (KYC) Back when we all first started performing KYC (know your customer) checks on our customers the focus was on two main objectives: 1. Ensuring sufficient documentation was held on the registered holder – know your customer (KYC)2. Trying to stop Money Laundering (ML) – hence the term…
Fund Distribution: Impact of the 4th Anti Money Laundering Directive
The fourth Anti Money Laundering Directive (AML4), or Directive (EU) 2015/849 to give its proper name, is due to be implemented into National Law by all EU member states by 26 June 2017. As with all directives there can be gold-plating at the national level. There will also be recommendations, guidelines and interpretation from various…
Local SEO and why it matters for Guernsey Finance
In the Finance Industry, Local SEO could easily be overlooked as being unimportant when the clear majority of our clients are based from overseas. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. I will explain why we should be doing more for our local SEO to help on with business on a global scale. Firstly,…
The EU Regulation Torrent
On 29th November I attended the 6th AIFM (Alternative Investment Fund Managers) Directive 2016 Conference held by the Private Equity Forum and hosted in the auditorium at the London office of Simmons & Simmons. The content was heavy on regulation and had a large focus on Brexit. I was also able to have a conversation…
To Brexit or not to Brexit?.. That is the question!
It seems that in the United Kingdom the government might want to observe the majority will to leave the European Union… however those plans might be scuppered by a few citizens from the minority that clearly lost the vote. Why is this? The United Kingdom has Parliamentary Sovereignty and therefore any vote of the people…
Interview: Christopher Jehan talks funds with BL Magazine
Recently Christopher was interviewed by BL Magazine, in the Funds Edition (November / December 2016).The photo shoot for the telephone interview was held on Wednesday 28th September in Jersey at the Radisson Blue Hotel. We are delighted to now be able to share this interesting & informative article with you! You can download our “assembled”…
