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Financial & Fiduciary

185 active businesses12 niches across 10 sectors

One hundred and forty-eight finance and fiduciary firms across ten sub-sectors — 88 of them in corporate services (46) or trust and fiduciary (42). Then 31 in insurance, 26 in private banking, and clusters of 20 or fewer in advisory, investment management, pensions, funds, compliance, and payments. All but eighteen sit in St Peter Port. —

Founded between 1822 and 2024

146 of 185 have a recorded year
1850190019502000
  • Corporate Services44
  • Insurance25
  • Investment Management21
  • Trust & Fiduciary21
  • Regulatory & Compliance12
  • Financial Advisory Planning9
  • Other (4)11

Where they're based

185 of 185 in Guernsey
St Peter Port164
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Accreditations & memberships

108 of 185 hold ≥1
  • Guernsey Finance43
  • Guernsey Chamber of Commerce31
  • STEP20
  • GFSC regulated18
  • ICSA10
  • ACA8
  • IoD8
  • CISI7

↓ and 28 more accreditations carried across the sector.

Corporate Services

58
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Forty-six of 147 financial-fiduciary firms — 42 in St Peter Port, company administration the dominant specialism (39).

Trust & Fiduciary

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Forty-two firms, 38 in St Peter Port — trustee services (30), trust admin (28), and family office work (28) the core.

Insurance

37
3 niches

Thirty-one firms — high-street brokers in St Peter Port alongside an eight-strong captive-management cluster serving global clients.

Investment Management

33
1 niche

Nineteen firms manage money on island, eighteen in St Peter Port — group-owned wealth arms, independents, and Utmost's life-linked pair.

Financial Advisory Planning

28
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Twenty firms, three-quarters in St Peter Port — the oldest traces to 1823, the newest opened 2021; ten do financial planning.

Private Banking

25
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Twenty-six private banks and wealth firms — all but one in St Peter Port, anchored by Cazenove (1823) and a Swiss-banking cluster of six.

Fund Administration

21
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Sixteen firms, all but one in St Peter Port — global fund groups with trillion-dollar parents alongside independent boutiques.

Pension Services

21
1 niche

Eighteen firms — sixteen in St Peter Port — weighted toward cross-border pension administration (RATS, QROPS, international plans).

Regulatory & Compliance

16
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Fourteen firms — five global-network accountancies (PwC, EY, KPMG, BDO, Moore Stephens) alongside nine boutique compliance houses.

Payment Services & FX

10
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Ten firms — seven international bank branches and three bureau de change operations, nine in St Peter Port.

Other businesses in this category3

Tagged in Financial & Fiduciary but not in one of the sectors above.

  • Adrian Welch Finance Brokers
    Finance brokers — personal, commercial, asset, and property loans.
  • Guernsey Investment & Funds Association (GIFA)
    Trade association for funds and investment management — advocacy and education.
  • The International Stock Exchange
    Stock exchange — bonds, REITs, sustainable finance, private markets