Gibraltar gears up for DLT and Blockchain By Vickram Khatwani Senior Tax Manager, Deloitte The terms blockchain, cryptocurrency and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) have become part and parcel of everyday conversation, spoken by both industry professionals and the general public…
Gibraltar Funds: The National Private Placement Regime lives on By Joey Garcia, Financial Services Partner at ISOLAS and head of the technical committee of the Gibraltar Funds & Investments Association (GFIA) The reality is that Brexit has had little practical…
By Joey Garcia, a Financial Services Partner at ISOLAS and Chairman of the Gibraltar Funds & Investments Association (GFIA) A strong Gibraltar delegation returned from a short but intense mission to both Singapore and Hong Kong in July. The exercise…
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…
by Tom Stephenson, Underwriting Management & Business Development, Robus, Gibraltar / Gibraltar Insurance Association (GIA) The case for Gibraltar as a great place to do business, is made time and time again by industry professionals, as well as Gibraltar Finance…
Gibrael – A new Bi-national Chamber of Commerce for Gibraltar By: Eran Shay, Managing Director, Benefit Business Solutions and President of “Gibrael”- the Gibraltar-Israel Chamber of Commerce Recently a new Chamber of Commerce has been established on the Rock, between…
Getting warmer By Fahad Kamal, Chief Market Strategist, Kleinwort Hambros The first half of 2020 is now behind us, but it is a period indelibly etched into our collective memories. We entered this year cantering towards the eleventh year of…
By Alicia Morillas Salazar, Head of Risk & Compliance, Robus Risk Services (Gibraltar) Limited An SRS Company General Insurance intermediaries have played an important role in the Gibraltar insurance industry, despite never being in the centre of the regulatory radar…
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…
Fintech: revolutionary innovation in financial services Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’d have heard the phrase “FinTech”. It’s a term often banded about, but despite being in vogue, its exact meaning is lost on many, Richard Bowry, Senior…
