ESG update: EU mandates 40% women on boards
Rules will also require 33% women in senior roles by 2026 In the latest ESG legislative initiative to come from the EU, the trialogue discussion between the Commission, Parliament and Council have agreed to adopt landmark mandatory quotas to ensure ‘the underrepresented sex’ will have at least 40% of seats on corporate boards. The requirements […]
Omnitrack Undertaking Register – What is it and why is it important?
Part of VinciWorks’ SRA Compliance Suite: record and track all undertakings in one location The VinciWorks’ SRA Compliance Suite is hosted in Omnitrack, a powerful yet flexible data collection and reporting tool. Established use cases in the SRA Compliance suite include a Regulatory Breaches Register, a Conflicts Register, a File Review process and more. The […]
Omnitrack 2.63.0
Add placeholders to custom thank you message Create custom thank you messages for each of your forms that include a placeholder referencing a specific submission ID. Bug fixes Fixed an issue where custom thank you messages did not have a save option. Fixed an issue where editing a default email template was overwriting customized templates. […]
Your ESG Guide to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Framework
Most popular ESG frameworks Far from a buzzword, ESG is fast becoming the standard for businesses to manage and report on their risks. ESG: environmental, social and governance, are essentially the broadest set of factors that can measure a company’s impact on the world. ESG reporting and ratings drive a huge and growing amount of investment. […]
New podcast episode: Mental Health at Work – Wellbeing in the ‘post’-Covid World
After two years of social and financial pressures, and with the pandemic still prevalent in our everyday lives, not everyone is comfortable with returning to the workplace in person. Are your employees struggling with returning to the office? Are they anxious and uncomfortable? How are they doing mentally now that lockdown is over, and what impact […]
Regulatory Agenda for June 2022
To help businesses keep track of updates in UK legislation and policies, VinciWorks regularly publishes a regulatory update. Our regulatory agenda for June includes the new bills announced in the Queen’s Speech, including modern slavery changes, audit reform, GDPR changes and new deforestation due diligence requirements. What’s in the Regulatory Agenda for June? What’s new […]
GDPR four years on
Your GDPR Questions and Answers Thank you to everyone who came along to last week’s GDPR webinar. We had a number of questions during the webinar and we’ve answered them all here in this blog. Please contact us if you would like a personalised discussion on your data protection compliance needs. Top 12 GDRP questions […]
New FCA compliance training: FCA Complaint Handling
The FCA requires financial firms to follow a formal process for receiving and handling customer complaints. That means that workers must be trained in all the different steps of this process, from recognising complaints to investigating them, responding to, and recording each complaint properly. Failure by employees to comply with the requirements of any of […]
US Treasury releases new strategy for anti-money laundering and combating financial terrorism frameworks
National illicit finance strategy – high-level priorities On 13 May 2022, the US Department of Treasury published its 2022 National Illicit Finance Strategy. The strategy aims to strengthen the country’s existing anti-money laundering / combating financial terrorism framework. The strategy outlines four high-level priorities: Priority 1: Increase transparency in the U.S. anti-money laundering / combating financial […]
From compliance to cultural normality – the case for getting diversity and inclusion right
If employers were hoping that the issues of diversity and inclusion were just a passing storm to be weathered, they would be very wrong. Societal and legal pressures are coming together as employees demand change. Research into Google’s online search habits shows consistency in growth across diversity and inclusion issues in the workplace over the […]
