NEWS
- Promoting
a culture of individual ethical behaviour in the business and organisation
In the past, whistleblowing was a valuable tool for monitoring
the corporate ethics, governance or compliance strategy in a company.
In recent times, however, hackers have disclosed incidences of misconduct
and efficiently exploited the lack of IT Governance and Security to
bring wrongdoers to justice.
- Parallel
session on the role UK plays as a haven for global dirty money
As part of the Anti-Corruption sessions at the 10th annual European
GRC Summit in London on the 28-29th September 2016, we will conduct
a separate meeting to launch a set of recommendations for greater
transparency and accountability in the prominent role that the UK
plays as an enabler in combating global corruption with appropriate
actions. The session is led by Lady Olga Maitland and BCCD chairman
Mariano Davies.
- EU
parliament enforces rules to ensure the full transparency & future
robustness and accuracy of benchmark
Legislators all over the world continue to introduce new financial
regulatory compliance rules. This time, it is the European Union-European
Parliament that is set to make it harder to manipulate financial benchmarks
on London (Libor) or in the euro zone (Euribor). These are used as
references in financial and commercial contracts, together with other
parameters such as prices of gold or crude oil and foreign exchange
rates.
- Uncertainty
on MiFID II and other financial regulatory compliance issues continue
For MiFID II implementation there remains an enormous amount of
work left to be done because it primarily affects all stakeholders.
At the 10th annual European GRC Summit, we will provide an update
to the proprietary trading community on MiFID II and other financial
regulatory compliance mandates.
- EU
parliament requires transparency, robustness and accuracy on regulatory
financial benchmarks
Legislators all over the world continue to introduce new financial
regulatory compliance rules. This time, it is the European Union-European
Parliament that is set to make it harder to manipulate financial benchmarks
on London (Libor) or in the euro zone (Euribor). These are used as
references in financial and commercial contracts, together with other
parameters such as prices of gold or crude oil and foreign exchange
rates.
- Data
security at Mossack Fonseca & Co of the Panama Papers fame
Mossack Fonseca & Co., the Panamanian law firm and corporate service
provider with more than 40 global offices and 600 lawyers worldwide,
has received extensive media attention in April 2016 when an enormous
cache of its documents was provided to news media in the Panama Papers
off-shore tax haven leak.
- EU
Data Protection: Restoring Trust in Transatlantic Data Flows
In future transfer(s) of personal data from the EU to the United
States under the current Safe Harbor scheme is now regarded as potentially
unlawful. Therefore, the EU Commission has published a draft with
detailed provisions for the new data protection framework for the
transfer of personal data, now known as the E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield.
- Protecting
the Intellectual Property rights in your organisation
The cost of weak links in supply chains is too high to ignore.
As part of the company's IT Security, businesses must consider what
to do if things went wrong in your supply chain? It is essential that
companies realise the importance of security and work together to
keep the supply chain secure.
