London Governance & Compliance Academy

What is ESG & Why It’s Important

Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance, better known as ESG, has been making quite a splash in the business world these days.

Investment in ESG by companies in a wide array of industries has been on the rise in recent years, particularly following the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic, event that has shone a spotlight on the growing connection between sustainable development and financial results.

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The FCA restricts the circulation of crypto-derivatives by banning their sale to retail customers

FCA measures include banning the sale, marketing and distribution of any derivatives and exchange traded notes with linkage to unregulated cryptoassets, citing “inherent nature of the underlying assets, which means they have no reliable basis for valuation” to justify them. According to Sheldon Mills, interim Executive Director of Strategy and Competition at the FCA, this […]

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The Result of Inadequate Compliance

20 September 2020 news about HSBC’s moving millions of Ponzi scheme money through its US business to Hong Kong, soon after the UK’s biggest bank had been heavily fined in the US over money laundering, clearly shows that even heavy weights are susceptible to flaws in the compliance function that inevitably result in enormous damage.  […]

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