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Templar Vintners Limited

22nd January 2010
It has been brought to the Commission’s attention that the above-named entity is operating a web site with an address of www.templarvintners.com. The website includes downloads of articles purporting to have appeared in well known publications. One such article includes an advertisement for The Templar Vintners Fine Wine Fund in which it claims to be authorised by the Commission as a Class B...

International Monetary Fund Clearance Commission

14th October 2009
The Commission has had a document brought to its attention with the letterhead titled "International Monetary Fund Clearance Commission" which claims to have an address in Guernsey. The Guernsey Financial Services Commission wishes to confirm that there is no such entity of this name and the document appears to form part of a fraud scheme. Anyone receiving such a document is advised to cease...

Bogus States of Alderney and Guernsey Financial Services Commission document

8th October 2009
​The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has recently had a copy of a letter brought to its attention which contains details of both the States of Alderney and the Commission on the same headed paper. The letter, which is titled "Urgent Notice", refers to a large sum of money for a named individual and that a security deposit should be paid to a certain bank account. This is to warn anyone who...

Crystalix London Limited / Crystalix London Asset Management Company

7th October 2009
​It has been brought to the Commission's attention that the above-named entity is operating a web site with an address of www.crystalixlondon.com.The web site indicates that CRYSTALIX LONDON provide offshore multi–manger funds which are structured as Protected Cell Companies (PCCs) domiciled in Guernsey. The purpose of this notice is to warn potential investors that the company is not licensed...

Guernsey Corporate Secretaries Limited

7th October 2009
The above named company is a company incorporated under the laws of The Bahamas with registration number 34,965B. The purpose of this notice is to clarify that Guernsey Corporate Secretaries Limited is not a Guernsey company, nor is it licensed, authorised or in any way regulated by the Commission to carry out corporate secretarial or other regulated fiduciary activities under The Regulation of...

Reality Millions

7th October 2009
​It has been brought to the Commission's attention that a website has been operating using the trading name of Reality Millions. The site claims that an entity registered as an "International Business and Investment Trust Company" under the name RM Private Trust, also known as ITBG Securities Underwriters Corporation, has its home jurisdiction in the Channel Islands. The Commission wishes to...

Sigma Forex (European Forex Trading)

7th October 2009
​It has been brought to the Commission’s attention that the website www.sigmaforex.com associated to Sigma Forex contains a link to the Commission’s own website and implies that the company complies with Guernsey regulations. The Commission wishes to advise that Sigma Forex is not licensed, registered or in any way authorised to conduct any financial services business in or from within the...

CL Investing Limited / CL Investing Asset Management Company

16th September 2009
I​t has been brought to the Commission's attention that the above-named entity is operating a website with an address of www.cl-investing.com. The web site indicates that CL INVESTING provides offshore multi–manger funds which are structured as Protected Cell Companies (PCCs) domiciled in Guernsey. The purpose of this notice is to warn potential investors that the company is not licensed...

St James Global Limited and Joseph Coutts

11th January 2008
It has recently come to the attention of the Commission that Joseph Coutts, the former shareholder and managing director of St James Global Limited, may be trading as an insurance intermediary under the name St James Global from Monaco. The Commission understands that he may be trying to contact former clients of St James Global Limited to promote new products. St James Global Limited is a...