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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Tiptoeing through tipping-off in Jersey
The Proceeds of Crime and Terrorism (Tipping Off – Exceptions) Regulations 2014 (“the Regulations”) have been in place for a while now but after...
Investing in the emerging medical marijuana market
I should start with a caveat – I’m not a lawyer and I wouldn’t dream of claiming to be able to give legal advice. But I do spend quite a lot of...