Jersey Finance chief executive Geoff Cook talks to Sarah Godfrey about the growing sophistication of the offshore industry and how Jersey shapes up to the challenges of the the present and the future
It is fair to say the world has become a more sophisticated place over the past 30 years. In 1979, when Jersey Finance chief executive Geoff Cook was starting out in financial services, most people still thought - in the words of Douglas Adams - that digital watches were a pretty neat idea. As far as finance went, in the UK banks were for deposits and lending, while stockbrokers managed investments. Even IFAs were a thing of the future, to say nothing of the kind of electronic financial shenanigans that recently lost Societe Generale £3.7bn. Likewise, while offshore centres like Jersey ...
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