Update Bhutan – CM PB

2024, Cross-border, Update

Country Manual Private Banking – Bhutan BRP Update 2024

BRP has updated its Country Manual Private Banking for Bhutan out of bank’s country of establishment (DEF, RS, BT and RT)

Source of changesAnswers
Law / RegulationNo
New Position of the AuthoritiesNo
Evolution of Expert’s InterpretationNo

Regulatory Template, Regulatory Summary and Behaviour Template

Material changes

The Country Manual has been reviewed to ensure that the content remains accurate and up to date. Following our assessment and the assessment of our local counsel in Bhutan, we may confirm that the have been no material changes or modifications in the relevant regulations of Bhutan since the last update.

Non-material changes

Some comments/conditions have been reworded and further non-material changes have been made throughout the documents.

Impliction for business relations with third parties

The documents have been reformatted onto the latest template. The section referring to the relationship with third parties (Finders, BI, and EAM) now provides more answers which better distinguish between the provision of documentation to the EAM for its own use and provision of documentation for its subsequent distribution to end clients.

Regulatory Summary

This document has now a more user-friendly layout and reflects the changes contained in the RT.

BT Short Comparison

BRP has created a comparison document allowing users to quickly identify the modifications made compared to the previous version of the PB Manual (BT Short Comparison). The BT Short Comparison can be found on BRP’s platform (mybrponline) in the Search tab by entering in the Document Field “CM PB BT SHORT COMP” and “BHUTAN” in the Target Country Field.

The BT Short Comparison should be read as follows:

The first column contains a short description of the activity in question. The second column contains the answers of the previous version of the Country Manual (online until the day of the alert). The third column contains the new answers of the most recent version of the Country Manual. Only the modified answers are displayed (in color). If the answers in the new version are unchanged compared to the previous version, they are shaded in grey.

For more information, please contact us: info@brpsa.com

Geneva, March 12th 2024