Osiris wins Guernsey fiduciary licences and makes the island its Channel Islands hub

The Osiris Group has been granted fiduciary licences by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission and has opened two companies on the island: Osiris Management Guernsey and Osiris Trustees Guernsey. The launch was announced on 14 August 2026 and reported by WealthBriefing and Channel Eye.

Guernsey becomes the group’s Channel Islands base. Osiris has been running fiduciary, corporate and trust services for 27 years from Mauritius, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands, with an expanding presence in Hong Kong and Dubai. The two new companies will provide trustee services, trust administration, corporate administration, private client structuring, family office support, and directorship and governance services.

Who is actually running it

Four names were given for the Guernsey board, and the mix tells you something about how the business is meant to work.

Dan Bisson joins as executive director. He is Guernsey-resident with more than 25 years in fiduciary work, having held senior roles at Nedbank International, RBC, Butterfield and Rothschild Trust. Jonny Gamble, also an executive director, has more than 30 years on the island across investment, fiduciary and private wealth.

Tim Walker moves across from Osiris Corporate Solutions in Mauritius, where he was head of trust and administration. The group described his role as providing continuity while the Guernsey business is established, which is a polite way of saying that someone has to make sure the new office runs on the same operating model as the rest of the group. George Titan, chief executive of Osiris Group, sits on the board as a non-executive director.

Titan said in a statement that “Guernsey is a jurisdiction our clients and intermediaries have been asking us about for some time, and it strengthens our ability to offer genuine jurisdictional choice through a single, well-governed group.”

Why a licence announcement is worth reading carefully

Most families never see a press release about a fiduciary licence, and most of those releases say roughly the same thing. This one is worth a second look because of what it implies about how cross-border structures are being assembled.

A family with assets and members in several countries often ends up with trusts and holding companies in more than one jurisdiction, administered by more than one firm. That is workable, but it means duplicated onboarding, several sets of accounts, and no single person who can see the whole picture. Groups that hold licences in several places are selling the alternative: one relationship, one governance framework, several jurisdictions.

The trade-off is concentration. If the same group administers the Cayman company, the Guernsey trust and the Mauritius entity, a problem at group level reaches all of them at once. That is not an argument against consolidation, but it is a reason to look at how the group is capitalised and who owns it.

The other thing worth checking is whether a new local board has real authority. A trustee company incorporated in Guernsey, licensed by the GFSC and staffed by long-serving island professionals is a different proposition from an office that books business decided elsewhere. Bisson and Gamble between them bring more than 55 years of Guernsey experience to the board, which suggests the intention is the former. Whether decisions are genuinely taken on the island is something a family can only establish by asking, and by watching what happens when a difficult trustee decision comes up.

Osiris is affiliated with Osiris Law and GB Fund Services. The group has not disclosed how many staff the Guernsey operation will employ.