On 1 July 2026, Octopus International Business Services and Ramparts merge to form Resilience Group — a single Gibraltar-based, GFSC-regulated platform spanning company services, trustee and foundation work, and AIF fund administration. Two long-standing practices, one combined governance framework, one team.
Why we merged
Three things made the case for combining Octopus and Ramparts under a single GFSC-regulated entity.
Gibraltar is a small jurisdiction. Two mid-sized fiduciary practices, each carrying its own back-office, compliance overhead, and senior succession risk, were doing the same work twice. A single firm has the depth to take on larger mandates, weather staff changes, and invest properly in systems — without losing the boutique discipline that brought clients to either firm in the first place.
Most international clients need more than one thing at once: a Gibraltar company plus a trustee, a fund vehicle plus its administrator, a foundation plus its accountants. Octopus's CSP heritage and Ramparts's trustee and fund-administration practice now sit under one roof, with one client-onboarding process, one fee conversation, and one team that already knows the file.
One regulated entity means one GFSC relationship, one risk framework, one MLRO function, and one set of policies that govern every mandate. Combined oversight is harder to maintain across two firms than within one — and harder still to demonstrate to a regulator, a counterparty bank, or a sophisticated counterparty conducting due diligence. The merger collapses that surface area.
Regulation
Resilience Group operates under three Gibraltar Financial Services Commission permissions. Each licence has its own conduct rules, capital requirements, and ongoing reporting obligations.
Gibraltar Financial Services Commission
Company formation, registered office, corporate director and nominee shareholder services, statutory filings, and ongoing corporate governance for Gibraltar companies.
Inherited from Octopus International Business Services.
Gibraltar Financial Services Commission
Professional trustee appointments for Gibraltar and foreign-law trusts; foundation councillor roles for Gibraltar private foundations; administration of private and commercial fiduciary structures.
Inherited from Ramparts.
Gibraltar Financial Services Commission
Administration of Gibraltar Alternative Investment Funds and Experienced Investor Funds — NAV calculation, investor onboarding, transfer agency, and regulatory reporting for traditional and digital-asset strategies.
Joint capability of the combined firm.
Team
Senior accountability, named. The five principals below carry the relationships, the GFSC controlled-function roles, and the day-to-day mandate work between them.
[Brief credential — qualification, years in Gibraltar, controlled-function permissions]
[Brief credential — qualification, years in Gibraltar fiduciary work, controlled-function permissions]
[Brief credential — qualification, fund-administration experience, NAV oversight responsibilities]
[Brief credential — qualification, company-administration experience]
[Brief credential — qualification, AML/compliance experience, MLRO permission]
Full team bios: Our People.
How we work
Mandates are run by the people whose names are on the engagement letter — not delegated down a chain. Trustee and director appointments are taken with the same care as our own: real meetings, real minutes, real consideration of each decision on its merits. Gibraltar regulation expects substance; we treat it as a floor, not a ceiling.
Our clients are private people, private companies, and private funds — and they expect that to remain the case. We keep our own counsel about who we act for, what we do for them, and what we know about their affairs. Where we publish or speak, we do so on our own behalf, not on theirs.
If a structure cannot be explained to a thoughtful client in a few clear sentences, it is usually the wrong structure. Our work product — engagement letters, governance papers, regulatory submissions — favours plain language over jargon, and the actual question over a hedged one. Clients and their advisers can read what we have done without needing a translation.
To discuss a mandate, sense-check a structure, or find out whether Resilience Group is suitable for your requirements, contact us directly. Initial conversations are confidential and without obligation.
