Upcoming webinar: 20 years of Cybersecurity Awareness Month – How far have we come?

Upcoming webinar: 20 years of Cybersecurity Awareness Month – How far have we come?

Wednesday 25th October, 12:00 pm UK time

In this webinar with iSTORM, specialists in privacy, security and penetration testing, we will look at how far cybersecurity education and awareness have come over the last two decades and what are the priorities for the future to ensure a secure and interconnected world.

This free, one-hour webinar will combine practical advice with the latest cyber concepts and challenges your organisation should know. From best practices in password management and multifactor authentication to the increasingly sophisticated ways scammers target companies with phishing attempts.

This webinar will cover:

– New cyber disclosure rules from the SEC and EU
– Best practice in breach reporting and GDPR compliance
– What all organisations must do to protect themselves
– Key governance requirements for cybersecurity
– Future trends in data protection and cybersecurity

The webinar will feature experts from the consultancy iSTORM and the VinciWorks compliance team.

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On-demand webinar: Gifts and Hospitality Registers: The Overlooked Compliance Challenge

On-demand webinar: Gifts and Hospitality Registers: The Overlooked Compliance Challenge

The appearance of impropriety is one of the hardest compliance challenges to combat. Regarding gifts and hospitality, even modest tokens could cause problems if given at the incorrect time or to the wrong person. Gifts given to public officials could even cause significant regulatory breaches as laws differ worldwide.

As the United States Supreme Court has demonstrated, with some justices receiving all manner of bribes in exchange for favourable rulings, the appearance of impropriety can cause severe reputational damage, even if no rules were technically broken.

With new EU rules on public sector gifts and hospitality on their way and updates to bribery laws in Canada and the US, now is a vital time to refresh your bribery policies and think about having an automated solution to track who’s giving and getting what at your organisation.

In this webinar, we discuss:

  • Gifts and hospitality cases from around the world, including the storm over gifts to US justices
  • New EU regulations on gifts and hospitality for public officials
  • Key corporate bribery cases linked to improper gifts and hospitality
  • Why G&H registers should track gifts given, as well as received
  • Best practice in designing your G&H register

Watch the on-demand webinar and understand the importance of tracking who’s giving and getting what at your organisation.

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On-demand webinar: Health and Safety in the Inflation Age

On-demand webinar: Health and Safety in the Inflation Age

With people suffering from sky-high inflation, a mortgage and rental crisis, strikes across the economy and a cost of living crisis that affects everyone’s pocket, does health and safety get forgotten about? HSE figures show people are still being killed and injured at work, but even the HSE is suffering from a 43% drop in funding and slashing staff almost in half.

For health and safety professionals, the challenge in today’s workplace is ensuring health and safety remains a top priority in a world of overlapping crises when many people are struggling to make ends meet. Health and safety has never been more important when an accident at work could leave people in an even worse position.

Watch our on-demand webinar, where we look at health and safety in the context of today’s economic challenges. We look at compliance lessons from other challenging times and understand the lessons we can learn in how to ensure health and safety remains front of mind for workers.

In this session, we discuss:

  • The impact of inflation and cost of living crisis on health and safety infrastructure
  • Recent cases and statistics of H&S challenges for businesses
  • Best practice in health and safety training and compliance
  • The risks to organisations in letting health and safety compliance slip
  • Lessons from compliance priorities in challenging times

Watch the on-demand webinar and learn to deal with H&S challenges in today’s economic climate.

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On-demand webinar: Decoding CSRD – Understanding Sustainability Compliance and Reporting

On-demand webinar: Decoding CSRD – Understanding Sustainability Compliance and Reporting

Are you ready to take your sustainability efforts to the next level? 

Watch our on-demand webinar on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) – your guide to understanding sustainability compliance and reporting.

CSRD, a new EU legislation, mandates large and listed organisations to publish reports on social and environmental risks and their impact. Join Gary Yantin, Nick Henderson-Mayo, and Naomi Grossman in this informative webinar, where they unravel CSRD’s complexities and guide you on compliance and reporting strategies.

In this session, you’ll gain an understanding of CSRD, including:

  • A deep dive into CSRD and its origin
  • Step-by-step guidance on CSRD compliance and reporting guidelines
  • Key considerations for both EU and Non-EU businesses
  • Timelines and strategies for preparing your organisation for CSRD

Watch the on-demand webinar today and embark on a sustainable journey with confidence.

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Upcoming webinar: SRA’s Diversity Survey – A guide to beating this summer’s deadline with the SRA’s Head of EDI

Upcoming webinar: SRA’s Diversity Survey – A guide to beating this summer’s deadline with the SRA’s Head of EDI

Wednesday 5th July, 12:00 pm (BST)

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has announced that its biannual mandatory diversity survey will be due on 23rd July 2023.

All SRA regulated law firms, regardless of size, must collect, report and publish their workforce diversity data every two years.

In this webinar, VinciWorks’ Director of Best Practice, Gary Yantin, will be joined by Siân Hughes, Head of EDI at the SRA, and Andrew Donovan, Managing Director, at The Compliance Office. Gary, Siân and Andrew will discuss the importance of reporting and publishing SRA diversity data.

The webinar will cover: 

  • How to report and organise the diversity data
  • How to carry out the survey and meet the SRA’s deadline
  • Current data on diversity and inclusion in law firms and what firms can do to improve
  • How we can help

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On-demand webinar: FCA Compliance – Are you doing enough to combat money laundering?

On-demand webinar: FCA Compliance – Are you doing enough to combat money laundering?

Did you know the UK ranks second highest among money laundering hot spots worldwide? It’s estimated £88 billion is laundered every year.

Financial institutions are responsible for catching the bad actors to prevent and stop money laundering. But unfortunately, it’s not always easy to identify who they are. 

In this webinar, our experts, Nick Henderson, Naomi Grossman and Sandra Erez, explore money laundering, how it impacts financial services firms, and what firms can do to protect themselves.

The webinar covered: 

  • The importance of having risk assessments in place
  • Best practices for client due diligence
  • Understanding money laundering legislation – staying compliant or facing the consequences
  • How to identify red flags in financial transactions
  • What we can learn from recent high-profile money laundering fines

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You can listen to this webinar as a podcast episode here.

On demand webinar: Supporting sexual minority employees in the workplace

On demand webinar: Supporting sexual minority employees in the workplace
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Organisations have increasingly shown their commitment to sexual minority employees and customers with inclusive marketing and rainbow advertising.

But what concrete steps should organisations take to support their sexual minority staff, and how can businesses celebrate Pride when there are still so many challenges that LGBTQ+ individuals face worldwide? 

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Listen again to our GDPR webinar: – Five years on

Listen again to our GDPR webinar: – Five years on

Wednesday 24 May, 12:00pm (UK)

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has now been in force for five years. During that time, fines have totalled close to €2.8 billion, with over €1 billion in fines coming in the past 12 months. The most recent fines show that both large and small businesses are subject to regulators’ scrutiny.

Listen again to our webinar on GDPR’s fifth anniversary to look at the effect the regulation has had on the way we collect and process data and what we can expect going forward. We were joined by our own in-house DPO and went through the key developments in GDPR from across the EU.

The webinar will cover:
– A review of where businesses are falling short in GDPR compliance
– What can we learn from recent GDPR fines and enforcement actions?
– An update on the UK government’s proposed GDPR reforms
– The GDPR risks of AI services like ChatGPT
– Best-practice guidance
– How to take your GDPR compliance to the next step

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On-demand webinar: AML compliance – Are paper-based ID checks dead?

Many firms are still carrying out paper-based identification and verification of clients during the onboarding process. But is this the most efficient method?

In this webinar, we were joined by Thirdfort’s AML Services Manager Harriet Holmes, Compliance Office’s Managing Director Andy Donovan and VinciWorks’ Director of Product (Omnitrack) Ruth Mittelmann Cohen to explore the extent to which paper-based ID checks are still the best way to carry out CDD.

The webinar will cover:

  • What should firms be thinking about when identifying and verifying clients?
  • What methods are available to carry out client checks?
  • How often should you carry out ongoing monitoring of clients?
  • What should you think about before purchasing technology to improve your onboarding process?
  • What are the latest AML updates?

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On-demand webinar: The intersectional approach to diversity and inclusion

People are multi-dimensional in their identities and may identify with several different marginalised or minority groups at the same time. These overlapping identities can result in multiple and intersecting forms of bias, discrimination and disadvantage, both in the workplace and in wider society.

Intersectionality provides a framework for considering our different identities and experiences in order to understand the complexity of biases and prejudices that people can face and take steps to address any resulting inequality or discrimination.

In this webinar, we drew on expert insight, ‘lived experience’ interviews and original drama to look at how an intersectional approach can support inclusion and help to achieve more equitable outcomes.

The webinar covered:

  • What we mean by ‘intersectionality’
  • How our intersecting identities can overlap to create privilege or disadvantage
  • Why taking an intersectional approach is key to more effective inclusion
  • The importance of collecting and analysing data
  • How to put an intersectional approach into practice

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