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Understanding the UK’s Investment Firm Prudential Regime (IFPR)

As of January 1, 2022, all UK MiFID investment firms will have to abide by the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) brand-new Investment Firm Prudential Regime (IFPR).

According to the FCA, the IFPR’s overall objective is “to streamline and simplify the prudential requirements for MiFID investment firms that we prudentially regulate in the UK (FCA investment firms).”

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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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