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Jersey consumer debt judgments plunge
 
 
The number and total value of debt judgments in Jersey fell in the first quarter of 2019 compared with the same period 2018, according to figures released today by Registry Trust.   There were 448 judgments registered in Jersey during Q1 2019, 17% fewer than in the first three months of 2018. The average value of judgments dropped 46% to £2,737, though the median fell by just 9% to £201. The total value of all judgments fell 55% from £2.7m to £1.2m from the same p...
 
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Louvre announces two senior promotions
 
 
Louvre Trust (Guernsey) has promoted Leon Smith and Ed Riley within its compliance team. Leon (pictured right) takes a position on the board as Fiduciary Risk & Compliance Director, while Ed becomes Money Laundering Compliance Officer. Leon, who joined Louvre in 2017, has over 35 years of experience in the finance industry. A fellow of the International Compliance Association, he started his career in banking before moving into compliance 15 years ago. He has extensive experience wo...
 
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BL62: Regulation watch
 
 
Regulation watch: financial crime The Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) has brought its anti-money laundering and countering financial crime framework in line with international standards, as Anthony Williams and Andrew Murphy report The GFSC’s revised Countering Financial Crime and Terrorist Financing (Handbook) came into operation on 1 April 2019. The Commission’s goal for the Handbook is to keep the bailiwick’s framework for anti-money laundering (AML) and c...
 
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Top industry listing for Liquid
 
 
Channel Islands communications consultancy Liquid has been named in the top 25 listing of PR firms outside London – and among the sector’s most successful 150 companies in the UK. The annual listing, compiled by PRWeek magazine, also revealed that Liquid has for the first time joined the top 15 companies for public sector communications work due to a significant rise in income during 2018. The firm is ranked 15th. PRWeek ranks consultancies according to revenue and Liq...
 
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Ogier appoints Managing Associate
 
 
Advocate James Angus in Ogier's Jersey Dispute Resolution team has been promoted to Managing Associate. James joined Ogier in 2017, and advises clients on contentious and cross-border insolvency and restructuring, contentious trusts and succession matters, as well as complex financial services disputes. He has particular expertise in Jersey schemes of arrangement and regularly works with colleagues in Ogier's corporate team on these and other restructuring matters.  James is ad...
 
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FEATURES
 
 
The Interview: Sue Fox
 
 
In the latest chapter of an impressive 30-year career at HSBC, Sue Fox has joined the bank’s Channel Islands and Isle of Man operation as CEO. She comes armed with an agenda of growth, great service and inclusion What’s your background and how did you get to where you are now? It’s probably not the typical CEO story. I was born and raised in Liverpool. I’m an only child. I’m from a working-class family. I’m state school educated. From around the age of 12...
 
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How to... Brainstorm
 
 
What is it? The invention of brainstorming has been attributed to US ad man Alex Faickney Osborn, one of the founders of the agency BBDO. In 1953, he originated a process called ‘organised ideation’ to produce new ideas in the agency, and the participants quickly began referring to it as ‘brainstorming’. Osborn gave much of the credit for his process to Hindu teachers in India. He introduced the term in his book, Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of Creat...
 
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