Sanctions Compliance in Jersey: Licensing, Reporting and Enforcement in 2026

Description

This webinar will focus on sanctions compliance in Jersey in 2026, with an emphasis on licensing, reporting obligations, and enforcement by the Jersey authorities. Attendees will gain clarity on the scope of Jersey’s sanctions framework and its alignment with international regimes. The session will explain how firms can identify when licences are required, how to submit accurate applications, and how to meet reporting duties in a timely and effective manner. Real-world scenarios will illustrate how enforcement powers are being used and what firms can learn from recent cases. Practical guidance will also be provided on strengthening internal processes to withstand regulatory scrutiny and managing sanctions risk in a proportionate way. By the end of the webinar, participants will have a toolkit for navigating Jersey’s sanctions regime with confidence in 2026.

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

  • Jersey’s sanctions framework and international alignment

  • Licensing requirements and application process

  • Reporting obligations and compliance challenges

  • Enforcement actions and lessons learned

  • Strengthening internal sanctions controls

 

Presenters

Jack Deveney

Associate, Legal at Collas Crill

Jack Deveney 

Jack advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters, with a focus on financial services. He has particular expertise in regulatory matters, having extensive experience relating to the registration and ongoing supervision of relegated entities, as well as enforcement action. Jack also advises on commercial litigation and trust dispute matters.

Prior to joining Collas Crill in 2025, Jack worked for the Jersey Financial Services Commission as a legal adviser, advising on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious conduct, prudential, and AML matters.

Jack read Law at the University of London, completed his LPC at the University of Law Chester, and was admitted as an England and Wales Solicitor in March 2023.

 

Fiona Wilson

Of Counsel at Collas Crill

Fiona Wilson 

Fiona specialises in providing advice to businesses on regulatory compliance including money laundering and terrorist financing issues, and competition law and data protection matters, as well as Jersey financial services regulation and regulatory investigations and enforcement matters. She also provides advice on general corporate and commercial matters and mergers and acquisitions.

Fiona has collaborated with our private client and trusts team to help clients put into place managed trust company arrangements, and private trust company structures, outsourcing arrangements and processes for transferring books of business. She has also advised on making notifications and obtaining consents in relation to suspicious activity reports, sanctions licences and advice as well as assisting with internal investigations in relation to fraud, suspicious transactions and anti-bribery and corruption.

Fiona's previous experience as in-house counsel, as a director of a financial services business and as a company secretary of a listed company helps her give advice that is practically focused. 

 

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