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…
Gibraltar’s unique passport for EU access to the UK By Valerie Holliday and James Lasry, Financial Services Partners, Hassans International Law Firm The financial services industries including banking, insurance, investment and fund management, have always played an important…
By Jonathan Garcia, Partner, ISOLAS LLP When FTX collapsed in November 2022 it shook the entire digital assets ecosystem; currency values plunged, and consumers, institutions, and regulators panicked. The entire industry was dominated by fear and shock. For one of…
Gibraltar’s New Pension Regime An Overview by Marcus Killick, CEO, Isolas The beginning of April saw the long awaited introduction of a licensing and regulatory regime for personal pension providers in Gibraltar. An effective supervisory regime in this area had…
As part of the 25 years celebrations, we look back at the insurance industry over the same period, by David Coupe, InsureLaw and Yvonne Chu, Hassans International Law Firm Gibraltar’s insurance sector was in its infancy. The regulatory framework was…
Gibraltar: the Key to Europe for US and Asian Fund Managers By James Lasry, Vice Chairman of GFIA and President of the Gibraltar American Chamber of Commerce The advent of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD or the Directive)…
Gibraltar: A safe haven for crypto funds By James Lasry, Chairman, GFIA and Head of Funds at Hassans, advising a range of international groups on fund structuring, as well as assisting with fund-related disputes Gibraltar is now considered…
By James Lasry, Deputy Head, Financial Services, Hassans International Law Firm Limited Over the last few years, a number of developments in Gibraltar from disparate fields have converged to create the ultimate eco-system for crypto funds. Although this has been evident…
As provided for in the Free Trade Agreement with the EU, HMRC earlier this month announced that the UK will now apply the OECD mandatory disclosure rules (“MDR”) in place of the DAC6 requirements. Following suit, Gibraltar has aligned its…
Gibraltar Tames the Wild West By Daniel Pitaluga, Senior Associate at Abacus Financial Services Ltd What started out in January 2017 as another ordinary year, in the aftermath of a unpredictable 2016 which saw Donald Trump elected…
