{"id":64,"date":"2025-05-30T08:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T08:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fsc.projectfive.co.ck\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2025-06-29T00:21:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T00:21:37","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fsc.projectfive.co.ck\/?page_id=64","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"bde-section-64-100 bde-section\">\n              \n  \n  \n\t\n\n  <div class=\"section-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"section-container\"><h1 class=\"bde-heading-64-102 bde-heading\">\nFSC - About us\n<\/h1><\/div>\n<\/section><section class=\"bde-section-64-103 bde-section\">\n  \n  \n\t\n\n\n\n<div class=\"section-container\"><div class=\"bde-div-64-145 bde-div\">\n  \n  \n\t\n\n\n\n<div class=\"bde-rich-text-64-144 bde-rich-text breakdance-rich-text-styles\">\n<p>The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) came into existence in the Cook Islands on 1 July 2003, replacing the former Off-Shore Financial Services Commission. The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) merged with the FSC on 1 July 2012.<\/p><p><strong>VISION:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>To be a financial regulator that is committed to excellence<\/li><li>Integrity and supportive of growth and development of<\/li><li>The Cook Islands financial services centre.<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>MISSION:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>To oversee an effective and efficient prudential and investigative supervision<\/li><li>Regime applying risk-based, and intelligence-led, policies in line with<\/li><li>Internationally accepted best practice.<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>The FSC:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>Is an independent body responsible for the supervision of regulated financial entities and financial services in the Cook Islands<\/li><li>Comprises the Board, the Commissioner, the Head of FIU and its staff, supervisory staff and the Registrar of International Companies and International Trusts<\/li><li>Is the licensing authority for all financial institutions being banks, insurers (including captives), money-changing and remittance businesses and trustee companies<\/li><li>Operates the Registry of International &amp; Foreign Companies, Limited Liability Companies, International Trusts, International Partnerships and Foundations<\/li><li>The FIU function is to facilitate the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of money laundering, the financing of terrorism and other serious offences in the Cook Islands<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FSC &#8211; About us The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) came into existence in the Cook Islands on 1 July 2003, replacing the former Off-Shore Financial Services Commission. The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) merged with the FSC on 1 July 2012.VISION:To be a financial regulator that is committed to excellenceIntegrity and supportive of growth and development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsc.projectfive.co.ck\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsc.projectfive.co.ck\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsc.projectfive.co.ck\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsc.projectfive.co.ck\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsc.projectfive.co.ck\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fsc.projectfive.co.ck\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/fsc.projectfive.co.ck\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsc.projectfive.co.ck\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}