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February 15th, 2025
FIA to host investment business webinar

PASEA ESTATE, Tortola, VI- Investment business licensees, including directors, compliance officers, MLROs, and frontline employees of these entities are encouraged to participate in an upcoming Investment Business Outreach Webinar.

January 29th, 2025
FSC & FIA issue guidance on effective ongoing monitoring

PASEA ESTATE, Tortola, VI - The BVI Financial Services Commission (the FSC) and BVI Financial Investigation Agency (the FIA) have issued guidance on ‘An Effective Approach to Ongoing Monitoring’.

December 25th, 2024
FSC & FIA release Institutional Risk Assessment guide

PARAQUITA BAY, Tortola, VI- The BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) and the BVI Financial Investigation Agency (FIA) have released their publication giving guidance on Institutional Risk Assessment.

November 6th, 2024
Guidance on Mitigating Risks with Introduced Business Relationships issued

PASEA ESTATE, Tortola, VI- The BVI Financial Services Commission (the FSC) and BVI Financial Investigation Agency (the FIA), have jointly issued Guidance on ‘Mitigating Risks with Introduced Business Relationships’ (the Guidance), for the benefit of their respective supervised entities.

July 5th, 2021
'No evidence' to suggest corruption in FIA- Director to CoI

WICKHAM'S CAY II, Tortola, VI- Director of the Financial Investigation Agency (FIA) Mr Errol George has assured the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) that FIA officers are professional men and women of high integrity and that the Agency is void of political interference.

June 26th, 2018
VI’s Financial Services under threat again

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Virgin Islands (VI) has assembled a legal team to challenge a United Kingdom (UK) government’s decision—amendments to the Sanctions and Money Laundering Act—to counter one external threat, but it’s financial services sector faces another looming threat, if not addressed.

April 30th, 2014
UPDATE: FIA’s staff budget nearly doubles between 2012 & 2014

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The budget for staffing of the Financial Investigation Agency (FIA) has increased almost twofold between 2012 and 2014, according to the Agency’s draft budget estimates for 2014 laid on the table of the House of Assembly at its last sitting on Thursday April 17, 2014.

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