Insurance reciprocity for Gibraltar and the UK By David Coupe, Partner, Insurance and Corporate, at City based Birketts LLP EC3 Legal The Spanish and the French have many things in common: great wine; good food; and fabulous holiday…
Change, Challenges and Opportunities for the Gibraltar Insurance Industry By Derren Vincent, Executive Director, Willis Management (Gibraltar) Limited As part of the preparatory phase for the new ‘Solvency II’ regulatory regime effective on 1st January 2016, insurers were required to…
Diversification of Gibraltar’s insurance industry, with an emphasis on European expansion, forms part of an ambitious plan to further grow the sector as a major constituent of the jurisdiction’s finance centre Gibraltar’s insurance sector has seen huge success in recent…
By Daniel Pitaluga, Wealth Manager, Abacus Financial Services One of my fondest childhood memories is listening to my grandmother repeat the same personal financial advice every time she gave me a few pounds: “don’t spend it all in one go.”…
Higher costs fail to deter company formation and use of trusts Updating company and trust laws this year has given a new lease of life and potential new business lines for Gibraltar’s trust and company service providers against the background…
The major constituents of Gibraltar’s economy – offshore work, financial services, and e-commerce – are continuing to grow, increasingly there is demand for sophisticated legal skills and services, and greater competition Gibraltar is said to have the world’s largest legal…
by Eric Verleyen Societe Generale Private Banking Hambros (SGPBH) Chief Investment Officer In general, 2013 was clearly a great year for equities and risky assets. The so-called “fall of safe havens” fully unfolded early in the year when US and…
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…
