Jersey

Supporting Africa’s
Capital Requirements
Allan Wood
Business Development Director
Friday 15 June
Agenda
 Jersey Finance
 The foundations of our industry
 Jersey’s transparency credentials
 Research and innovation
 Jersey for funds – success factors
Where Does Jersey Finance Fit Into The
Equation?
Government
Industry
of Jersey

Jersey
Financial
Services
Commission
Growth
Markets
The Foundations
of Our Industry
The Foundations of Our Industry

Private Capital
Funds Banking
Wealth Markets

Expertise Experience Infrastructure

Sound Rule of Political Economic Tax

Regulation Law Independence Stability Neutrality
 Jersey’s
Transparency
Credentials
Jersey’s Transparency Credentials
Jersey Scores Top Marks…

OECD Global Forum confirmed that

Jersey is

‘Fully Compliant’
with all global standards of
international tax transparency
Research and
Innovation
Research and Innovation
 Jersey for
Funds – Success
Factors
Jersey – European Success Factors

149
Number of fund
promoters
has doubled 291
in the last Jersey AIFs marketed Jersey AIFMs authorised
five years into Europe through to market into Europe
NPPRs (15% through NPPRs
year-on-year (up 17% on
increase) Dec 2016)
Jersey – Global Success Factors
SoftBank
Vision Fund (largest in
$17bn Arc Reserve
Currency (AAA)
CVC Fund VII – biggest Jersey’s first ICO using
the world) chooses
European buyout fund the asset-backed
Jersey for its structuring
‘stablecoin’
cryptocurrency
 Why Jersey – It Works!
£300,000

£280,000

£260,000

Jersey
£240,000
Funds
Total NAV
£220,000
(£m)
£200,000

£180,000

£160,000
1-Dec-09 1-Dec-10 1-Dec-11 1-Dec-12 1-Dec-13 1-Dec-14 1-Dec-15 1-Dec-16 1-Dec-17
 Driving Innovation
Jersey Private
JRAIF – A Fund (100+
new manager authorisations)
led fund
Impact Investing – One
product
of the fastest-growing
areas of responsible
Amendments investment, with a global Funds
to Limited market estimated to Review –
Partnerships grow to $1tn Simplification
(Jersey) in assets of FSB and
Law 1994 by 2020 CIF classes
The
Value
of IFCs
Thank You
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