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Blockchain & Digital Assets for Financial Professionals

Course Overview

Blockchain and digital assets are no longer a distant technology story. They are already present in Guernsey's financial services landscape in the form of regulated stablecoins, tokenised institutional products, and an evolving GFSC framework that is actively shaping how these assets are classified, held and serviced.

Clients are beginning to ask questions that require informed, confident responses and Regulators expect practitioners to understand the risk and compliance frameworks. Institutions that build this knowledge now will be better placed to service, advise and retain clients as this asset class grows.

Course Content

The course is delivered across three mornings in association with Innovate Guernsey and the Guernsey Digital Assets Association, ensuring content reflects the island's latest policy and innovation developments.

Each morning covers two 90-minute sessions building progressively from foundations through to live Guernsey use cases.

Every session references Guernsey's regulatory framework, live local examples, and the specific client scenarios that Bailiwick practitioners are likely to encounter.

Morning 1

  • What is Blockchain? Why blockchain was invented, consensus mechanisms, public/private chains, real-world applications, GFSC context (Nick Collinson)
  • Cryptocurrencies & Digital Assets Asset taxonomy, Bitcoin & Ethereum, stablecoins, CBDCs, TVVIN case study, risk comparison (Kurtis Wright)

Morning 2

  • Tokenisation & Smart Contracts What tokenisation means, RWA examples, smart contract mechanics, DeFi, institutional DeFi (Kurtis Wright)
  • Digital Assets in Financial Services Custody models, hot/cold wallets, multi-sig, stablecoin payment rails, client servicing scenarios (Jamie Winterburn)

Morning 3

  • Regulation, Compliance & Risk GFSC framework, AML/KYC, FATF Travel Rule, wallet screening, MiCA, FCA, SEC overview (Jamie Winterburn)
  • Practical Implementation Guernsey opportunity, three use cases, business case framework, action plans (Nick Collinson)

Benefits

All three tutors are active practitioners with current, direct engagement in Guernsey's digital asset and financial services ecosystem. By attending these sessions, delegates have the opportunity to learn from people working at the frontier of these developments on and around the island and will obtain:

  • A clear, working understanding of blockchain and digital assets in plain professional language — no technical background required
  • The confidence to engage with digital asset client enquiries, regulatory questions and internal discussions
  • A practical grasp of AML/KYC obligations specific to digital asset transactions, including the FATF Travel Rule
  • An understanding of Guernsey's GFSC regulatory framework and the island's competitive positioning in digital assets
  • A personal action plan with concrete next steps for their role and firm
  • A full participant handout pack with 50+ term glossary and session reference materials

Prerequisites

This course is ideal for delegates working in fund administration, trust companies, banks, compliance and legal firms. No prior knowledge is required.

Next Steps

If you would like to book a place on this course please click on the ‘Book Course’ button to the right of this page and login or register for a user account to complete your booking(s). Any queries please do not hesitate to contact us via [email protected] or call us on 01481 224570.

If no date is scheduled for this course at the present time please click on the ‘Register Interest’ button and login or register for a user account so that we can add you to our course interest register. This register allows us to contact our tutors and finalise dates for a course as soon as we have a few people who have expressed their interest, so the more delegates who register their interest, the sooner we can schedule a particular course.

Course Details

Price

£495.00

Length

3 half-days (09:00-12:30 Dates TBC)

Course Tutors

Jamie Winterburn

Jamie is a practitioner-focused digital assets and financial crime specialist with hands-on experience at the intersection of blockchain, regulation and institutional risk management. He is the founder of CThru , a digital asset intelligence and compliance platform used to screen wallet addresses and blockchain transactions against sanctions, AML and financial crime risk indicators. He is also a founder of CVault, focused on secure digital asset custody and infrastructure, giving him practical exposure to real-world custody models, operational risk and governance challenges faced by funds, fiduciaries and financial institutions. His background combines a career in the fiduciary sector with deep subject-matter expertise across digital assets, AML/KYC, FATCA and CRS, wallet analytics and regulatory frameworks relevant to financial services.

Kurtis Wright

With nearly 25 years in financial services spread across 6 regulatory regimes and jurisdictions, Kurtis is a financial technology practitioner focusing on digital asset innovation in the specialist fields of KYC, financial crime and atomic settlement. He is the founder and COO of Block Infrastructure, a fiat and digital asset infrastructure provider which delivers a tokenised KYC distribution network alongside an atomic compliance and settlement protocol — streamlining KYC, customer due diligence and client onboarding, with a market-first offering of FATF and OECD-compliant finality to settle transactions in real time. His banking career began in credit risk and underwriting in the UK, before moving into offshore banking and wealth management in the Channel Islands, finishing as a corporate banker and BMLCO supporting the global rollout of a new standards compliance framework at HSBC Middle East.

Nicholas Collinson

Nicholas is a Guernsey-based founder and entrepreneur with deep experience across fintech, financial innovation, and the island's regulatory and professional ecosystem, having lived on Guernsey for 5+ years. He holds a board position at Innovate Guernsey and is Vice President of the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce. Professionally he is co-founder and COO of TVVIN, a GFSC-to-be-regulated stablecoin issuance platform, and co-founder and CCO of banxlocal, building a UK-based multi-bank retail branch network. His connections span regulatory, legal and professional services across multiple jurisdictions, having lived and worked in the UK, Malta, Gibraltar and Singapore prior to arriving in Guernsey. He is now focused on the island's wider innovation infrastructure, bringing a uniquely current and Guernsey-specific perspective to build the future of finance on island.

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