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Jersey updates regulatory codes

Chris Hamblin, Editor, London, 5 September 2016

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The Jersey Financial Services Commission has prepared and issued codes of practice that contain the principles and detailed requirements with which financial firms must comply. Each code is issued and kept up according to statute.

Principle 6 to a number of the codes of practice mentions general and specific ways in which firms must notify the regulator of various things. To help institutions that have to comply with more than one code, the JFSC has provided 'at-a-glance tables' of its 'principle 6 notifications.'

Several of the amended codes are already in effect.

The new codes issued under Article 19 Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998 (effective as of 1 September) are the codes of practice for fund service business; general insurance mediation business; investment business; money service business; and trust company business. The code for deposit-taking (i.e. banking) business, effective on the same date, was issued under Article 19A Banking Business (Jersey) Law 1991. The code for insurance business, effective on the same date, was issued under Article 42 Insurance Business (Jersey) Law 1996. The code for certified funds, effective on the same date, came under Article 15 Collective Investment Funds (Jersey) Law 1988. The new code for Alternative Investment Funds and AIF service business came under Article 22 Alternative Investment Funds (Jersey) Law 2012 and Article 19 Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998.

The JFSC has also prepared and issued codes of practice in accordance with Article 22 Proceeds of Crime (Supervisory Bodies) (Jersey) Law 2008. There are four, but the only one that concerns wealth management is the Handbook for the Prevention and Detection of Money Laundering and the Financing of Terrorism for Financial Services Businesses Regulated under the Regulatory Laws.

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