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 […]
New podcast episode: Mental health in professional services
In this episode, we focus on mental health in professional services firms. While we’re taking law firms as a broad example of professional services, these lessons and ideas really extend to wider professional services firms. VinciWorks’ Director of Best Practice Gary Yantin supports law firms in getting compliance right, and he has been speaking with […]
Tesla dumped from S&P ESG index
How ESG is catching up with Elon Musk Tesla is certainly a company that stands out from the crowd. It seems as if every other day Tesla is hit by a new bit of bad news. If it’s not viral videos of flaming cars locking their drivers inside then it’s critical software updates for apparently […]