30% fall in finance industry economic output

The report, which is produced by the States Statistics unit, says that the decline was led by the banking sector, which is the industry’s largest sub-sector and accounts for £860 million of GVA last year.

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, the economic output of Jersey’s banks has almost halved in real terms and fell by six per cent last year. However, despite this downturn there was good news in other areas.

The trust and company administration and legal sub-sectors of finance fared better, increasing to a GVA of £670 million in 2016, which was an annual rise of three per cent.

Treasury Minister Alan Maclean said that the figures in the report were ‘not surprising’, however, and the long-term decline in GVA was mainly due to the fall in interest rates since the global financial crisis.

– Advertisement –
– Advertisement –