By Joey Garcia, a Financial Services Partner at ISOLAS and Chairman of the Gibraltar Funds & Investments Association (GFIA). He was the advisor to GSX Limited through its authorisation process With Listing Members now signed up and approved, and listing…
Gibraltar government is working to make telecommunications for the jurisdiction’s expanding bandwidth hungry eGaming and financial services customers more price competitive, it has emerged. For some time, the expanding remote gambling sector, in particular, has complained that charges for telco…
Christian Garcia is the President of the Gibraltar Bankers’ Association and also the Chief Financial & Operations Officer at Lombard Odier & Cie, Gibraltar Everything seems to indicate that going forward, the financial sector will continue to be challenged by…
By Richard Bowry, Senior Associate at Hassans The transitional period for the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) expired on 22 July 2014 and accordingly the non-UCITS funds industry in Europe is now governed by AIFMD. Gibraltar, as a member…
Gibraltar’s “premier division” e-gaming community is taking a last roll of the dice in its bid to thwart UK plans to introduce a point- of-consumption tax for on-line bets from December by seeking a second Judicial Review. A High Court…
Gibraltar’s bid to capture a significant share of the expanding $US 7.5bn a year world market in Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) has been given a real boost, with news that a stock exchange is to be established and the arrival…
Joey Garcia is a financial services Partner at ISOLAS law firm and chairman of the Gibraltar Funds and Investments Association (GFIA) Insurance Linked Securities (ILS) have been proven to be one of the most successful manifestations of the convergence of…
By Louis C. Montegriffo, Managing Director, BMI Group Or are they?? Don’t panic people, I am not about to take issue with civil rights movements, although to be fair, we could do with our own version of Bob Dylan singing…
Local suppliers of electronic services are facing higher operating costs and a great deal of uncertainty as a result of new EU-wide rules on Value Added Tax (VAT), as business representatives discovered in early October when they joined a round…
Eran Shay is the managing director of Benefit Business Solutions Ltd, a Gibraltar registered company that specialises in jumpstarting new businesses, through business plan preparation, market surveys, valuations, capital raising and outsourced CFO services. The company also provides local agent…