Europe

Europe is a key market for Jersey’s international finance industry. Jersey has longstanding relationships with European markets and provides investors, fund managers, families and businesses with a stable, well-regulated and internationally connected centre for investment, fund and wealth structuring.

Jersey is a well-established international finance centre (IFC) for European and international investors, offering expertise across funds, private wealth, corporate structuring and investment management, with particular strengths in private equity, real estate and other alternative asset classes.

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European markets

Jersey has longstanding relationships with European markets and plays an important role in supporting cross-border investment.

Here are some of the ways Jersey supports European markets:

  • For alternative funds, Jersey provides an established route to European professional investors through EU Member States’ National Private Placement Regimes (NPPRs).
  • As a third country for EU financial services purposes, Jersey offers fund managers the flexibility to access relevant European markets without automatically requiring an EU-domiciled fund or EU fund manager.
  • Jersey has its own relationships and arrangements with EU Member States in relation to financial services, which are distinct from the UK’s relationship with the EU.
  • Jersey maintains an extensive network of international tax agreements and participates in international frameworks for tax transparency, exchange of information and regulatory cooperation.

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Jersey’s contribution to Europe

Jersey supports investment into European economies through its funds, corporate, banking, investment management and private wealth sectors.

As an international finance centre, Jersey brings together global capital, investment expertise and professional services, facilitating cross-border investment and supporting the deployment of capital into businesses and assets across Europe.

Research undertaken by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) has examined Jersey’s global economic footprint and its contribution to global value chains, including its economic contribution across Europe.

Jersey’s relationship with the EU

Jersey is a self-governing Crown Dependency and is not, and has never been, a member of the European Union.

Jersey has its own legal, fiscal and regulatory systems and has long been treated as a third country for EU financial services purposes. Its relationship with European markets is therefore distinct from that of the United Kingdom.

 

For financial services, Jersey maintains its own relationships and arrangements with EU Member States. For alternative investment funds in particular, Jersey’s established regulatory and cooperation arrangements support access to professional investors in EU Member States through National Private Placement Regimes.

This provides managers with a well-established route to European capital while allowing them to target the markets relevant to their fundraising strategy.

Jersey and AIFMD II

AIFMD II has applied across the EU since 16 April 2026.

Jersey has updated its EU/EEA alternative investment fund regulatory framework to reflect the revised Directive and support continued access to European investors.

For Jersey managers marketing alternative investment funds into the EU through National Private Placement Regimes, the impact of AIFMD II is limited compared with the changes applying to EU managers and funds operating under the full AIFMD regime.

NPPR continues to provide an established route for Jersey funds and managers seeking to access professional investors in individual EU Member States.

This means managers can continue to consider Jersey as part of their European fundraising strategy without necessarily establishing an EU fund and manager solely to access selected European markets.

 



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