For All Gibraltar Regulated Entities And Individuals

For all sectors of financial services, the gaming industry, and other sectors of the business community such as real estate and high value dealers, having employees and management with appropriate knowledge and awareness of the financial crime controls that need to be in place and any regulatory developments is paramount. For this reason, GACO is committed to offering annual anti-money laundering training, counter-terrorism and counter proliferation financing and is happy to invite you to att...

Player protection and the promotion of safer gambling feature high on the agenda for operators. Pressure is increasing on operators to improve efforts in this area. Player protection is such an important and serious topic for anyone working in or around the gambling industry. A lot of pressure is put upon operators to improve efforts in this area and rightly so. But are we being given the opportunity to understand the evidence we have about gambling related harm and implement strategies tha...

Policy management is more than just keeping everything in a 3-ring binder that you distribute to colleagues. It’s the creation, approval, organisation, and dissemination of all policy and procedure documents. It also refers to the modernisation of your manuals. You can’t just hand employees a thick book and tell them to read it when they have a chance. Most people don’t even bother to read the terms and conditions of the app they downloaded, so why would we just hand someone a binder full of...

GACO Annual General Meeting 2021 In accordance with clauses 8.3, 9.5 and 16.1 of the Constitution, notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting will be held at 09.30 on Wednesday 16th June 2021 online via GoToMeeting Application. AGENDA 1. Approval of the minutes of the 2020 Annual General Meeting held on 2nd July 20202. Chairperson’s Report3. Treasurer’s Report4. Training Committee Report5. Ratification of Executive Committee Actions6. Election of Executive Committee for calenda...

GACO and Intelectgroup are organising this high quality Webinar that will be delivered to you by Colin Tansley of Intelectgroup. Colin Tansley may already be known to some of you, he has visited Gibraltar on a number of occasions to deliver his Internet Investigative Skills for Due Diligence enquiries course. He will be joining us again this year for an ‘online’ workshop. Colin regularly conducts Enhanced Due Diligence investigations for a wide range of clients. He will be sharing his exper...

The European Union’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) came in on 10th March 2021 and introduced requirements on EU asset managers and advisers to make ESG related disclosures, which provide investors with the information needed to make informed choices based on ESG factors. Further ESG related EU Regulation is in the pipeline to be phased in from January 2022 onwards.Although SFDR has been implemented after the “exit date” of 31st December 2020, therefore has not been adopted ...