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NEWS
 
 
Jersey publishes Q2 house price report
 
 
Statistics Jersey has published the House Price Index report for the second quarter of 2019, as summarised below: • On a rolling four-quarter basis, the mix-adjusted average price of dwellings sold in Jersey during the year ending Q2 2019 was 2% higher when compared with the previous quarter (year ending Q1 2019). • On a quarterly basis, the seasonally adjusted mix-adjusted average price was 2% higher than in the previous quarter and 8% higher than in the corresponding quarter of 2...
 
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BDO Greenlight recruits consultants
 
 
Change management specialist BDO Greenlight has appointed four consultants to its team in Jersey.  • Claire Macready joins from the Government of Jersey’s Health and Community Services department, bringing with her broad experience of the public sector, as well as digital and modernisation programmes. • Joe Smith, a project manager and business analyst, has worked in change management in the offshore finance industry since 2012, most recently for Utmost Wealth Solutions...
 
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Carey Olsen and JTC support cryptocurrency launch
 
 
Carey Olsen and JTC have assisted secure mobile communications provider Criptyque in obtaining a Jersey virtual currency exchange licence to operate its cryptocurrency exchange platform, PryvateX, which opens for registration soon.    The team behind Criptyque is building a secure and private ecosystem and, in addition to PryvateX, offers an encrypted messaging platform (voice, text and email) and a hardened cryptocurrency wallet. Designed to work with PryvateX, Criptyque has also d...
 
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Collas Crill adds to communications team
 
 
Collas Crill has appointed two Communications Managers across the Channel Islands. Kim Halliwell (pictured right) joins as Group Communications Manager, based in Guernsey, and will work with the Strategy Board and Management Committee to inform and engage colleagues in the firm's strategy, ambition and success. She is also responsible for developing Collas Crill's employer brand and for developing the firm's approach to communication at a group level. Kim has worked in communic...
 
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CIPR announces Channel Islands annual forum
 
 
The Channel Islands group of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) is to hold its annual forum on 12 September, at which it will discuss purposeful profits, the value of social responsibility and the role of PR professionals. Four off-island speakers have been confirmed for the event: • Lord Michael Hastings of Scarisbrick, Global Head of Citizenship at KPMG International, will open the afternoon with a talk about purposeful profit, asking why sustainability and CSR ma...
 
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FEATURES
 
 
How to be an expat
 
 
Foreign travel, new cultural experiences, a global network of friends – the rewards of expat life can be many, but there is a knack to making it work the expatriate lifestyle has an undeniable glamour. The opportunities to travel, to make new friends and explore different cultures is certainly attractive. But it has its downsides too. Whether it’s culture shock, bureaucratic barriers or financial obstacles, living abroad can be challenging. If you’re thinking of moving to a...
 
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Breaking at the seams
 
 
Populism and protectionism are putting a strain on global flows of trade and investment capital. As a key conduit to these flows, are international financial centres under threat from declining globalisation?  The headlines have been stark: ‘Globalisation in retreat’, ‘Will globalisation go into reverse?’ and ‘Globalisation: the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world’. Since 2016, with Brexit heralding what some see as the break-up of the Euro...
 
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