Guernsey is playing an important role in helping the financial services sector in London and the wider UK to prepare the industry to thrive once Britain leaves the European Union.
Miles Celic, chief executive of TheCityUK, which has been working with Guernsey through a relationship with Guernsey Finance for the past year, told an audience of more than 350 at the promotional agency’s annual update that the island’s longstanding position as a ‘third country’ to the EU offered valuable insight for the industry in the UK.
Mr Celic, whose organisation represents UK-based financial and related professional services, said: “The lesson we are having to relearn is that we want to continue to have the relationship outside of the EU in the same way we did before we joined the Common Market in 1973… <more>
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