BVI Regulatory Expectations in 2025: Navigating the Compliance Landscape
This webinar forms part of the 2025 Financial Services Compliance Series (BVI-specific).
Description
This webinar provides insight into the evolving regulatory landscape in the British Virgin Islands for 2025. It will explore anticipated regulatory themes, key focus areas for FSC inspections, and the impact of international coordination and peer reviews. Attendees will gain practical guidance on how to strengthen internal controls and align compliance frameworks with emerging standards, ensuring readiness to meet heightened regulatory expectations and maintain robust governance across their organisations.
This webinar provides one-hour of CPD and offers insights and updates from a leading industry-expert speaker.
Delegates places are interchangeable with colleagues from the same organisation.
Content
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Forecast of 2025 regulatory themes
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Key focus areas for FSC inspections
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International coordination and peer reviews
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Preparing internal controls for new standards
Presenters
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Lucy Frew Partner, Head of Regulatory & Risk Advisory at Walkers |
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Lucy Frew is a Partner based in Walkers' Cayman Islands Office, where she heads the global Regulation & Risk Advisory Group. She joined in 2016 and brings over 18 years' experience of advising clients on financial services and markets regulation and risk management. Lucy's clients are financial institutions across the wholesale and retail spectrum, including a range of alternative finance and payment services providers and other financial technology businesses as well as banks, investment fund managers, brokers, retail investment advisors and trading venues. Typical matters range from strategic advice to the full range of financial regulatory applications and notifications as well as day-to-day financial regulatory compliance, contentious financial regulatory matters and risk management. Many of Lucy’s matter have a cross-border element. Lucy has contributed to leading texts on banking and investment regulation and is listed as an individual in the Legal 500. She has frequently commented on financial regulatory matters in the press, including the FT and leading industry publications, and is a regular speaker at conferences, contributor to professional publications and active participant in industry working groups. She was called to the Bar (Honourable Society of the Middle Temple) in 1998 and is also admitted to the Roll of Solicitors, having graduated in law from King's College, University of London in 1997. |
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Iona Wright Partner at Walkers |
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Iona Wright is based in Walkers' British Virgin Islands office where she is a Partner in the firm's Regulatory & Risk Advisory Group, having joined in 2022. She has over 12 years' experience in advising on financial services regulation, with a particular focus on the buy-side. Iona has substantial expertise across a wide range of financial services regulatory matters, including licensing and regulatory perimeter analyses, financial promotion considerations, cross-border marketing of funds, fund management, banking and investment firm remuneration, senior management governance and controls, regulatory corporate transaction support and ESG investing.
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