Jersey has no standalone EMI/PI licensing regime; payment services (money transmission, e-money, currency exchange) are captured as Money Service Business (MSB) under the Financial Services (Jersey) Law 1998, regulated by the JFSC. Banks require separate registration under the Banking Business (Jersey) Law 1991. Foreign PSPs serving Jersey clients also require JFSC authorisation.
Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.
No periodic updates recorded against this sub-brief.
MSB and banking conduct is governed by JFSC Codes of Practice (MSB Code, Banking Code) issued under the FSJ Law and Banking Business (Jersey) Law 1991, requiring fair client communication, safeguarding of assets and adequate governance. Jersey has no statutory financial-promotions regime as detailed as the UK's; conduct rules sit within sector codes rather than a standalone promotions statute.
Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.
No periodic updates recorded against this sub-brief.
Jersey has no bespoke stablecoin statute; stablecoins are treated as tokenised real-world assets under the JFSC's 2024 Guidance Note on Tokenisation of Real-World Assets, requiring full backing by low-risk/cash-equivalent assets, Jersey incorporation, COBO consent and AML compliance. Jersey launched its first stablecoin under this framework in 2025.
Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.
No periodic updates recorded against this sub-brief.
Jersey's operational resilience posture is anchored in the JFSC's revised Outsourcing Policy (effective 1 January 2024), which requires notification and, for material arrangements, a 'no objection' from the JFSC for outsourcing including cloud, data-centre, cyber-security and digital-ID services. There is no standalone DORA-style resilience statute; resilience obligations sit within the outsourcing and codes-of-practice framework.
Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.
No periodic updates recorded against this sub-brief.
Jersey does not operate a domestic card scheme or interchange-regulation statute; card acceptance in Jersey runs on UK/international acquirer and scheme infrastructure (Visa/Mastercard), with PCI DSS compliance enforced contractually by acquirers/schemes rather than by Jersey statute. Absent-field provenance recorded for a Jersey-specific interchange/surcharging law.
Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.
No periodic updates recorded against this sub-brief.
Jersey's principal payment corridor is with the UK (sterling, Faster Payments and CHAPS), reflecting its status as a Crown Dependency closely integrated with UK clearing and correspondent-banking infrastructure; cross-border/international flows rely on SWIFT and correspondent banks given Jersey's absence of direct scheme/clearing membership of its own.
Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.
No periodic updates recorded against this sub-brief.
Jersey's financial-services industry is bank-and-fund-centric, with the number of licensed banks falling from 42 (2012) to 19 (2024) amid global consolidation and rising compliance costs; the sector (including banking, funds, wealth) contributes around 38% of Jersey's GVA. Payments/fintech activity sits alongside this core as a smaller, growing adjunct sector supported by Digital Jersey and Sandbox Jersey.
Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.
No periodic updates recorded against this sub-brief.
Jersey's Royal Court operates a mixed common/civil/customary law system; the standout payments-adjacent enforcement event is the Attorney General's first-ever Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA), against a foreign-exchange/cross-border payments firm, marking a new corporate-criminal-liability enforcement tool for Jersey financial services.
Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.
No periodic updates recorded against this sub-brief.
Jersey has no bespoke merchant-acquiring statute; card acquiring for Jersey merchants is provided by UK/international acquiring banks and PSPs operating under standard scheme rules and PCI DSS, supervised indirectly via JFSC MSB/banking licensing of the entities involved rather than an acquiring-specific regime. Absent-field provenance recorded for a Jersey-specific chargeback/dispute statute.
Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.
No periodic updates recorded against this sub-brief.
Jersey pursues fintech innovation through 'Sandbox Jersey' (a collaboration of JFSC, Digital Jersey and Jersey Finance) rather than a formal regulatory sandbox; the JFSC is a member of the Global Financial Innovation Network (GFIN) and has issued sequential tokenisation/virtual-asset guidance (2016 VCE regulations, 2017 ICO guidance, 2024 RWA tokenisation guidance) as its principal product-innovation vehicle. Jersey does not operate an open-banking framework.
Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.
No periodic updates recorded against this sub-brief.
Jersey has no standalone APP-fraud reimbursement statute; the JFSC is jointly developing, with the Guernsey and Isle of Man regulators, a coordinated Crown Dependencies APP fraud framework (high-level principles published July 2026) that explicitly diverges from the UK's mandatory PSR reimbursement regime by not implementing inter-bank cost-sharing, with detailed reimbursement/customer-responsibility rules still to be settled.
Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.
No periodic updates recorded against this sub-brief.
Sentinel.gi position for Jersey: the AML/CFT/CPF regime rests on the Proceeds of Crime (Jersey) Law 1999, the Proceeds of Crime (Supervisory Bodies)(Jersey) Law 2008 and the Money Laundering (Jersey) Order 2008, consolidated in the JFSC's AML/CFT/CPF Handbook; MONEYVAL's July 2024 Mutual Evaluation Report found Jersey's effectiveness among the highest of jurisdictions evaluated, with a Recommended Actions plan being closed through 2026 and further follow-up reporting due December 2026.
Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.
No periodic updates recorded against this sub-brief.
Jersey banks (predominantly branches/subsidiaries of major international groups) rely on UK and international correspondent relationships and SWIFT for cross-border settlement access; deposit protection sits with the Jersey Bank Depositors Compensation Scheme, whose administration transferred from the Jersey Bank Depositors Compensation Board to the new Jersey Resolution and Depositors Compensation Authority (JRDCA) on 1 April 2026 under the Bank (Recovery, Resolution and Depositors' Compensation)(Jersey) Law 2017.
Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.
No periodic updates recorded against this sub-brief.
The clearest trailing-12-month commercial event identified for Jersey payments is the May 2026 grant of an MSB e-money/money-transmission licence to a digital banking division (Bloomsbury Money / DMALINK Jersey Limited), expanding multi-currency IBAN and cross-border payments capability from a Jersey base. Broader Jersey-specific payments M&A/funding disclosures were not found in this pass; absent-field provenance recorded for a dedicated Jersey payments-company funding round in the trailing 12 months.
Absence reason not determinableNo sub-brief exists and the JID records no gap or review marker explaining why. The renderer will not invent a reason.
No periodic updates recorded against this sub-brief.
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