FSC
Statement of Guidance
66 published document(s) from British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission.
| Citation | Status | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment of the BVI Financial Services Commission Guidelines for the Approved Persons Regime (2013-12-20) | Status not confirmed | This is a short amendment to the BVI Financial Services Commission's Guidelines for the Approved Persons Regime (originally effective 2 March 2009), issue… |
| An Effective Approach to Ongoing Monitoring | Status not confirmed | This is joint AML/CFT/CPF guidance from the BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Financial Investigation Agency (FIA) explaining how licensees… |
| Anti-Money Laundering & Combatting Terrorist Financing Guidelines for the Banking Sector | In force | These are FSC guidelines that supplement the BVI's AML/CFT legislative framework (the Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Act 1997, Anti-Money Laundering Regulat… |
| Authorised Custodians of Bearer Shares of BVI Incorporated Companies (Aide Memoire #3, May 2004) | Status not confirmed | This BVI Financial Services Commission Aide Memoire (May 2004) sets out the criteria the Commission will use to approve firms as authorised custodians of… |
| BVI Business Companies (Amendment of Schedule 1) Order 2021 and Financial Services (Limited Partnership Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 FAQs | Status not confirmed | This is a set of FAQs issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission explaining the practical effect of the BVI Business Companies (Amendment of Schedule… |
| BVI Business Companies Act User Guide No. 3 - The Memorandum and Articles of Association | Status not confirmed | This is User Guide No. 3 issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission's Registry of Corporate Affairs, explaining the memorandum and articles of associ… |
| BVI FSC Approved Managers (Amendment) Guidelines, 2014 | Status not confirmed | This instrument amends the BVI Financial Services Commission's Approved Managers Guidelines (originally issued November 2012). It updates wording in Parag… |
| BVI Handbook on International Co-operation and Information Exchange (Revised February 2025) | In force | This is an internal-facing guidance handbook, first issued in 2007 and now reissued in February 2025, that explains the British Virgin Islands' overall fr… |
| BVI Handbook on International Co-operation and Information Exchange (Revised June 2013) | Status not confirmed | This is a guidance handbook, first published in 2007 and revised in June 2013, explaining the legal and institutional framework the British Virgin Islands… |
| BVIBCA Approved Forms and Related Guidelines (October 2012) | Status not confirmed | This guidance, issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission under section 241 of the BVI Business Companies Act 2004, sets out rules for using the Comm… |
| BVIFSC Approved Forms and Related Guidelines (Consolidated February 2012) | In force | This is a consolidated guidance document issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission under section 41B of the Financial Services Commission Act, 2001,… |
| Beneficial Ownership Obligations Under the AML Regime | Status not confirmed | This is guidance jointly issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Financial Investigation Agency (FIA) explaining how licensees under… |
| Company Names, User Guide No. 2 | Status not confirmed | This is Registry of Corporate Affairs User Guide No. 2, explaining how BVI Business Companies Act rules on company names work in practice. It covers namin… |
| Compliance Period Extended under Schedule in Anti-Money Laundering Regulations, 2008 – Guidance Notes | Status not confirmed | This guidance from the BVI Financial Services Commission explains how relevant persons under the Anti-Money Laundering Regulations, 2008 (AMLR) can apply… |
| Contactless Certificate Collection Guidelines (Hong Kong Office) | Status not confirmed | This is a short operational guidance notice from the BVI Financial Services Commission's Hong Kong office setting out a contactless procedure for Register… |
| Corporate Compliance Function Services Guidance | Status not confirmed | This guidance from the BVI Financial Services Commission explains the framework under section 34A of the Financial Services Commission Act, 2001 that allo… |
| Directors and Their Responsibilities, User Guide No. 4 | Status not confirmed | This is a BVI Financial Services Commission Registry of Corporate Affairs User Guide explaining the role and legal responsibilities of directors under the… |
| Effective Enhanced Customer Due Diligence Measures | Status not confirmed | This is joint guidance from the BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Financial Investigation Agency (FIA) explaining how licensees should condu… |
| Exemption Guidelines for Licensees in Run-off, Solvent Liquidation or Insolvent Liquidation | In force | These are guidelines issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission allowing licensees that are in run-off, solvent liquidation or insolvent liquidation… |
| FAQs: Beneficial Ownership Implementation | Status not confirmed | This is a Q&A style guidance document issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission explaining how the new BVI Business Companies and Limited Partnershi… |
| FATF Report: Virtual Currencies - Key Definitions and Potential AML/CFT Risks (June 2014) | Status not confirmed | This is the FATF's 2014 typologies report on virtual currencies, made available by the BVI Financial Services Commission as background guidance material r… |
| FATF Updated Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach to Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers (October 2021) | Status not confirmed | This is the FATF's October 2021 Updated Guidance for a Risk-Based Approach to Virtual Assets (VAs) and Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs), made avail… |
| FSC Approved Forms and Related Guidelines (Amendment) 2014 | In force | This instrument amends the BVI Financial Services Commission's Approved Forms and Related Guidelines (originally issued 30 March 2010), effective 15 June… |
| FSC Approved Investment Managers Guidelines (Consolidated 25 February 2014) | Status not confirmed | These BVI Financial Services Commission guidelines explain the framework under the Investment Business (Approved Managers) Regulations, 2012 that lets cer… |
| FSC Guidelines for the Approved Persons Regime 2009 (2013 Consolidated) | Status not confirmed | This is the BVI Financial Services Commission's consolidated guidance (originally 2009, amended through December 2013) on the Approved Persons Regime. It… |
| Financial Services Commission Approved Forms and Related Guidelines | Status not confirmed | This guidance, issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission under section 41B of the Financial Services Commission Act, 2001, sets out the Commission's… |
| Fund Custodian and Manager Exemption Application Guidelines | Status not confirmed | These BVI Financial Services Commission guidelines explain when a private, professional or public mutual fund may be exempted from the statutory requireme… |
| Fund Financials Guidelines 2019 | Status not confirmed | These Guidelines from the BVI Financial Services Commission set out how mutual funds and private investment funds may apply for exemptions and extensions… |
| Fund Safekeeping Arrangements Guidelines 2019 | In force | These BVI Financial Services Commission guidelines explain what safekeeping arrangements the Commission expects private investment funds, incubator funds… |
| Guidance Notes on Mutual Fund Annual Returns (Mutual Funds Act, 1996) | Status not confirmed | These guidance notes explain how to complete the Mutual Fund Annual Returns form required under the Mutual Funds Act, 1996. The form is a supervisory repo… |
| Guidance Notes on Revocation or Cancellation of Licences or Certificates of Regulated Persons, Including the Approval of Solvent Liquidation Procedures | Status not confirmed | These Guidance Notes explain how the BVI Financial Services Commission exercises its powers to revoke or cancel the licence or certificate of a regulated… |
| Guidance Notes on the Prevention of Money Laundering (BVI) | Status not confirmed | These Guidance Notes, issued by the Joint Anti-Money Laundering Coordinating Committee (JAMLACC), set out the British Virgin Islands anti-money laundering… |
| Guidance on Application for Registration of a Virtual Assets Service Provider | In force | This is FSC guidance explaining how to apply for registration as a Virtual Assets Service Provider (VASP) under the Virtual Assets Service Providers Act,… |
| Guidance on Applying for Approval to act as Registered Agent for Micro Business Companies | Status not confirmed | This guidance from the BVI Financial Services Commission sets out the process for licensees to obtain approval to act as Registered Agent for Micro Busine… |
| Guidance on Regulation of Virtual Assets in the Virgin Islands (BVI) | Status not confirmed | This is guidance from the BVI Financial Services Commission explaining how existing financial services legislation (the Securities and Investment Business… |
| Guidelines and Operating Procedures of the LSC (Amendment) 2014 | Status not confirmed | This is an internal Financial Services Commission (FSC) document amending the Guidelines and Operating Procedures of the Licensing and Supervisory Committ… |
| Guidelines and Operating Procedures of the LSC (Amendment) 2015 | Status not confirmed | This is a short amendment to the Financial Services Commission's internal Guidelines and Operating Procedures of the Licensing and Supervisory Committee (… |
| Guidelines for Authorised Representatives Under the Securities and Investment Business Act (September 2013) | Status not confirmed | These guidelines from the BVI Financial Services Commission set out the framework for persons certified to act as Authorised Representatives under section… |
| Guidelines for the Approved Persons Regime (2010 Revision) | Status not confirmed | These are the BVI Financial Services Commission's Guidelines for the Approved Persons Regime, which set out the rules and procedures the Commission follow… |
| Guidelines for the Approved Persons Regime (Amended March 2010) | Status not confirmed | These BVI Financial Services Commission Guidelines set out the process and criteria the Commission applies when regulated persons seek approval of senior… |
| Guidelines in Relation to the use of Restricted Company Names (October 2011) | Status not confirmed | These BVI Financial Services Commission guidelines explain the rules restricting the use of certain names and words by companies and businesses registered… |
| Guidelines on Institutional Risk Assessments | Status not confirmed | This is guidance jointly issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Financial Investigation Agency (FIA) explaining how regulated entit… |
| Guidelines on the Filing of Beneficial Ownership Information Under the BO Regulations | Status not confirmed | These are guidelines issued by the Registrar of Corporate Affairs of the BVI Financial Services Commission under Regulation 38 of the BVI Business Compani… |
| Incorporating a Company Limited by Shares, User Guide No. 1 (Rev 9/07) | Status not confirmed | This is BVI Financial Services Commission guidance explaining the practical steps and legal requirements for incorporating a BVI Business Company limited… |
| Incubator and Approved Funds Guidelines | Status not confirmed | These BVI Financial Services Commission Guidelines explain how open ended funds can qualify for the lighter touch incubator fund or approved fund regimes… |
| Insurance Guidelines (2016) | Status not confirmed | These are the BVI Financial Services Commission's Insurance Guidelines, issued under the Insurance Act 2008 and Insurance Regulations 2009, which came int… |
| Insurance Guidelines 2016 | Status not confirmed | These Guidelines, issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission under the Insurance Act 2008 and Insurance Regulations 2009, explain how insurers, insur… |
| Mitigating Risks with Introduced Business Relationships | Status not confirmed | This is joint guidance issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the Financial Investigation Agency (FIA) on managing money laundering, te… |
| Money Services Business Guidelines | Status not confirmed | These are AML/CFT guidelines issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission for Money Services Businesses (MSBs), such as remittance and money transmissi… |
| Money Services Transaction Levy Payment Guidance | Status not confirmed | This is guidance from the BVI Financial Services Commission explaining how Class A licensees under the Financing and Money Services Act, 2009 must calcula… |
| Practice Direction Number 1 of 2006 | In force | This Practice Direction from the BVI Financial Services Commission clarifies three defined terms used in the Insurance (Amendment) Regulations, 2005, whic… |
| Practice Direction Number 2 of 2006 | Status not confirmed | This Practice Direction from the BVI Financial Services Commission sets out minimum expectations for how Captive Insurance Companies licensed under the In… |
| Practice Direction Number 3 of 2006 | In force | This Practice Direction sets out the minimum books and records that Captive Insurance Companies and their Insurance Managers must maintain at the insurer'… |
| Private Investment Funds Regime Guidelines 2019 | Status not confirmed | These Guidelines from the BVI Financial Services Commission explain the Private Investment Funds Regime introduced by 2019 amendments to the Securities an… |
| Provisional Guidance Notes on Compliance Regime | Status not confirmed | This is provisional guidance issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission setting out a framework for the appointment, status, duties and approval of C… |
| Provisional Guidance Notes on Compliance Regime (Overview) | Status not confirmed | This is a provisional guidance notice from the BVI Financial Services Commission introducing an interim framework for the compliance regime, covering the… |
| Re-registration of Companies Act Companies Under the BVI Business Companies Act, User Guide No. 6 (Revised 01/09) | Status not confirmed | This is User Guide No. 6 issued by the BVI Registry of Corporate Affairs, explaining how companies formed under the old Companies Act (called CapCos) are… |
| Revocation or Cancellation (including Solvent Liquidation) Overview | Status not confirmed | This is a short overview document introducing the BVI Financial Services Commission's Guidance Notes on Revocation or Cancellation of Licences or Certific… |
| Segregated Portfolio Company (SPC) Non-regulated BVI Business Company Registration Guidance | Status not confirmed | This guidance explains how existing BVI Business Companies (BVIBCs) that do not carry on regulated financial business can register as Segregated Portfolio… |
| Segregated Portfolio Company (SPC) Non-regulated BVI Business Company User Guide | Status not confirmed | This is a BVI Financial Services Commission user guide explaining how non-regulated BVI Business Companies can register or incorporate as Segregated Portf… |
| Striking off and Liquidation of Companies Under the BVI Business Companies Act, User Guides No. 5 | Status not confirmed | This is User Guide No. 5 issued by the BVI Financial Services Commission's Registry of Corporate Affairs, explaining the two routes by which a BVI Busines… |
| The Control of BVI-Issued Bearer Shares | Status not confirmed | This is a 2002 consultative Aide Memoire published by the BVI Financial Services Commission explaining the policy behind the then-forthcoming Internationa… |
| Trade Mark & Patent Fees FAQs | Status not confirmed | This is a plain-language FAQ published by the BVI Financial Services Commission explaining the statutory fees charged under the Financial Services (Trade… |
| Trade Mark Agent Guidelines | Status not confirmed | These guidelines from the BVI Financial Services Commission explain how individuals, partnerships and legal persons can apply for approval and registratio… |
| Trade Marks (Filing) Guidelines, 2018 | Status not confirmed | These Guidelines, issued by the Registrar of Trade Marks, Patents and Copyright under the Trade Marks Rules 2015, set out administrative and procedural re… |
| Trade Marks, Patents & Copyright Unit FAQs - October 2022 Meeting | In force | This document records the questions and answers from the BVI Financial Services Commission's Office of Trade Marks, Patents and Copyright's October 2022 m… |