June was a good month for Innovate Guernsey. We hosted Bob Ferguson from Fairfield, Iowa at Les Cotils on 22nd June for a speaker session, always worth bringing in a perspective from somewhere with a completely different economic model and seeing what, if anything, transfers back to a jurisdiction our size. Alongside that, the GDAA/GTA blockchain training programme has been keeping me busy, six sessions across three mornings, working alongside Kurtis Wright and Jamie Winterburn to get people properly up to speed on the basics through to more advanced “blockchain for business” thinking. Encouraging to see the appetite for it.
On the banxlocal side, June and July have largely been about the unglamorous but essential groundwork, working through the detail of our banking-as-a-service and e-money partner selection. Not the kind of thing that makes headlines, but it’s exactly the sort of decision that determines whether everything downstream actually works when we go live. We’re targeting a Q4 2026 go-live for the MVP, so the next few weeks matter.
TVVIN continues to build momentum in the background too, with the regulatory and investor conversations progressing steadily. Work here has been centred on commercial partnerships and relationships across banks, financial institutions, back-office functions and developing and validating use cases for the stablecoins, more to share on all of that once there’s something more concrete to report.
Finally, I’ve been active since taking up my role as Vice-President at the Chamber of Commerce working on a couple of specific developments that I’ll be able to lift the lid on next month!
Otherwise, a fairly typical Guernsey summer — a full diary, plenty of meetings, and the usual mix of Chamber and Innovate Guernsey commitments alongside the day job. More soon.
