Trustees Registry

About Trustees Registry

A public reference directory for Guernsey and Jersey licensed trust & corporate service providers ("fiduciaries") — firms that administer trusts, companies and private wealth structures on behalf of clients.

Where the data comes from

Guernsey — synced daily from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission's public regulated-entity register (gfsc.gg), cross-referenced against the Guernsey Registry (portal.guernseyregistry.com) for incorporation dates, entity type and registered numbers. GFSC's own published Public Statements (enforcement notices) are synced separately and linked to the firm(s) they name.

Jersey — JFSC's own register sits behind a bot-detection challenge with no public bulk-access channel, so Jersey firms here are sourced from the JATCo (Jersey Association of Trust Companies) public member directory instead. This is clearly labelled "JATCo directory listing (not an official JFSC reference)" wherever it appears, and is not the full Jersey market — only JATCo members, not every JFSC-licensed trust company.

Self-published enrichment — website descriptions, named team members and press mentions are compiled from each firm's own public website or public appointment/press announcements, and labelled "self-published, not verified regulatory data" or "third-party news coverage" as appropriate. These are never fabricated — if nothing credible was found, the field is simply left blank.

Cross-referencing

Every primary licensee is checked against the UK Sanctions List (individuals and entities) and the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database (Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Pandora Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Offshore Leaks). A match in the Offshore Leaks Database means the firm is named as a professional intermediary in that historical dataset — a normal, legal part of fiduciary business, not an allegation of wrongdoing. ICIJ's own data reflects a defined historical period, and many people and firms share similar names, so a name match alone should never be treated as confirmed identity. We do not run this kind of matching against named individuals (team members/directors) — the false-positive risk against common names, with no way to confirm identity, makes it more likely to wrongly associate a real person with someone else's history than to surface anything genuinely useful.

Jurisdiction context

Guernsey and Jersey are both scored by the Tax Justice Network's Financial Secrecy Index and Corporate Tax Haven Index — independent academic rankings of how permissive a jurisdiction's rules are (not a judgement on any individual firm licensed there). See the homepage for current rankings and links to TJN's own methodology.

What the labels mean

Primary / Secondary / Personal Licensee — GFSC's own licence categories, primary licensees hold the main fiduciary licence, secondary licensees typically operate under a primary licensee's supervision. Revoked / Surrendered / Suspended — historical, no longer an active licence. Featured — a firm that has requested placement, always shown alongside (never instead of) its regulatory and enforcement history.

Corrections

This is an independently compiled reference tool, not operated by the GFSC, JFSC or any firm listed. If something here is inaccurate, out of date, or a firm's own website content should be updated or removed, get in touch via the contact details on the relevant regulator's own register — we sync from source regularly and corrections at the source will flow through.