2025 Financial Services Compliance Series (BVI-specific)

Description

The 2025 Financial Services Compliance (BVI-specific) Series addresses the BVI’s evolving regulatory landscape, including the impact of FATF greylisting, through targeted 1-hour sessions designed for compliance leaders, directors, and risk professionals.

Covering critical topics such as governance, sanctions, beneficial ownership, and cyber risk, each webinar delivers practical guidance from experienced regulators and industry experts. Participants will gain 8 hours of valuable CPD, with actionable insights to support regulatory readiness and strategic compliance.

The series is delivered live online via Microsoft TEAMS and recorded where possible. Each webinar provides 1-hour of CPD. 

 

Suitable For

This series is suitable for all financial services compliance professionals, risk managers, MLROs and MLCOs. 

 

Agenda

Understanding the FATF Greylisting: Implications for BVI Financial Institutions 

16 September 2025 | 09:30-10:30 | 1 Hours CPD 

  • Key deficiencies highlighted by FATF

  • Immediate compliance priorities

  • Sector-specific impact (funds, CSPs, trusts)

  • Lessons from other greylisted jurisdictions 
 

BVI Regulatory Expectations in 2025: Navigating the Compliance Landscape

02 October 2025 | 09:30-10:30 | 1 Hours CPD

  • Forecast of 2025 regulatory themes

  • Key focus areas for FSC inspections

  • International coordination and peer reviews

  • Preparing internal controls for new standards
 

Data Privacy and Cyber Risk in BVI Financial Institutions

14 October 2025 | 09:30-10:30 | 1 Hours CPD 

  • Overview of data privacy laws impacting the BVI

  • FSC and global cyber compliance trends

  • Incident response and breach notification

  • Training staff and managing third-party risk
 

Cross-Border Risks and BVI Structures: A Compliance Perspective

28 October 2025 | 10:00-11:00 | 1 Hours CPD  

  • Managing multi-jurisdictional compliance

  • Information exchange and tax transparency

  • Red flags for money laundering and sanctions

  • Global regulatory coordination (OECD, EU, US) 
 

Beneficial Ownership and Economic Substance: Compliance in Practice

05 November 2025 | 10:00-11:00 | 1 Hours CPD 

  • UBO identification and verification

  • Economic substance filing requirements

  • FSC audits and enforcement actions

  • Alignment with international frameworks (EU, OECD)
 

Corporate Governance in BVI Financial Services: Raising the Bar

19 November 2025 | 10:00-11:00 | 1 Hours CPD 

  • Responsibilities of directors and senior officers

  • Board structure and meeting effectiveness

  • Regulatory expectations for fund and trust governance

  • Conflicts of interest and decision-making integrity 
 

Implementing Risk-Based Approaches (RBA) in BVI Entities

26 November 2025 | 10:00-11:00 | 1 Hours CPD 

  • Risk identification and categorisation

  • Scoring methodologies and client profiling

  • Proportionality in controls

  • Ongoing monitoring and trigger events
 

Sanctions Screening & Beneficial Ownership Transparency in the BVI

01 December 2025 | 10:30-11:30 | 1 Hours CPD 

  • Effective sanctions screening processes

  • Escalation protocols and real-time response

  • Integrating UBO data into compliance workflows

  • Technology solutions for due diligence
 

 

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