Notes from the compliance floor.
Written for compliance officers, not for search engines. Each piece answers a question a Channel Islands compliance team has actually put to us, cites the Handbook where the Handbook is the answer, and says plainly what the product does about it.
Published articles
Proof of address in 2026: what the GFSC Handbook requires, and what a utility bill proves
The Handbook asks you to verify where someone lives. A gas bill is evidence that a gas bill exists. Those are not the same claim, and the gap between them is where files fail.
Known-as names and passport names: why a mismatch should go to review, not decline
Half the world is known by something other than the name on its passport. An identity check that treats that as a failure is not being careful, it is being wrong.
The client is on a VPN. Flag it, do not reject it
An IP address is a fact about a network, not about a person. Treating it as a verdict rejects honest clients and evidences nothing. Treating it as a question does the opposite.
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