The HR and Compliance Teams often seem to operate at a distance within the same business, each focussing on their own areas of law and regulation wit...
A Regulator calls – a short guide to preparing for and managing a JFSC examination
Imagine you are the Head of Compliance for ABC Financial Services. The phone rings and it's your JFSC supervisor on the line, informing you tha...
COVID-19 – how should the Compliance Function respond?
We have seen communications recently from the JFSC regarding the industry’s response to the COVID-19 virus and it is encouraging that firms appear ...
Retirement of Chris Cooke
Cyan would like to bid a fond farewell to Chris Cooke, one of the company’s co-founders. After nearly six years as a principal at the company, Chri...
Our Response to COVID-19
Following the outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19, and as instructed by the Government of Jersey, we have temporarily closed Cyan's office in St. Helier...
Appointment of Helen Holmes
We are absolutely delighted to welcome Helen Holmes to Cyan. Helen joins Cyan from an international banking and financial services group where she...
The Key to Effective Compliance Monitoring
In recently announcing its examination programme for 2020, the JFSC has emphasised the importance with which it regards the compliance monitoring pro...
3 Key Reviews
The latest Consultation Paper (No. 10, 2018) from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (“the JFSC”) has floated the proposal that regulated en...
How safe is your client money?
I couldn’t help but notice one of the more significant amendments proposed by the JFSC in Consultation Paper No. 10 (Amendments to the Codes of Prac...