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Interview with Mark Buzan, Founder and Executive Director - Society of NonProfit Board Directors

Interview with Mark Buzan, Founder and Executive Director – Society of NonProfit Board Directors

Ahead of the NonProfit Board On-line Summit 26-28 February 2021 I​ talked with Mark Buzan, APR-CAE, Founder and Executive Director – Society of NonProfit Board Directors about what attendees can expect from the day. https://www.nonprofitboardsummit.org/

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ESG Investing: The 5 Biggest Questions

ESG Investing: The 5 Biggest Questions

By Refinitiv -March 6, 2020 Our LinkedIn audience answered five questions on the current state of ESG investing, including how to manage gaps in the disclosure of ESG data.The LinkedIn chat questioned whether asset managers were actively pricing climate change risks into their investment decisions and portfolios.The discussion concluded that ESG compliance was now a vital consideration for any…

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David Doughty - FinTech RegTech 2020-07-02

David Doughty – FinTech RegTech 2020-07-02

Interview first published in Journey of the Idea 02-07-2020 Can you summarise your experience in the FinTech and RegTech sectors? I spent most of my life doing I.T and enterprise software development. I exited my last company in 2007, which I’d co-founded. For the last ten years, I’ve been focussing on corporate governance. I’ve been working with boards of directors of all sorts of companies,…

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Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in the Charity Boardroom

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in the Charity Boardroom

The recently updated Charity Governance Code includes clearer recommended practice in the renamed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Principle and sets out four stages of practice for charities in their EDI journey. Boards should: Think about why equality, diversity and inclusion are important for the charity and assess the current level of understanding.Set out plans and targets tailored…

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Practical steps to improve board diversity

Practical steps to improve board diversity

NHS NExT Director scheme – supporting tomorrow’s Non-Executives Many boards in the private, public and voluntary sectors realise that they need to improve the diversity of their board members, whether it be ethnic, gender, restricted ability, age or socio-economic background, but find it hard to know where to start. An example of a practical solution to the problem of finding suitable board…

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Financial crime and modern slavery: the Twitter view

Financial crime and modern slavery: the Twitter view

Che Sidanius Global Head of Financial Crime & Industry Affairs / Member of the Coalition to Fight Financial Crime at Refinitiv In the fight against financial crime and modern slavery, we engaged experts and social influencers for a live Twitter chat to mark #AntiSlaveryDay. Read their thoughts and join the conversation. Our live Twitter chat engaged experts on the subject of financial crime and…

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Diversity and inclusion: what’s the risk?

Diversity and inclusion: what’s the risk?

Published in Business Reporter – Fraud Prevention and Risk Management, September 2020

From the Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) to the Environment, Society and Governance (ESG) investment initiatives, the resounding cry is for greater diversity and inclusion in the workforce, and a reduction in inequality and in the barriers to opportunity.

Yet the changes that reduce the dominance of, to put…

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How can you hold a global bank to account?

How can you hold a global bank to account?

The growing #ESG movement (Environmental, Social and Governance) influencing institutional investment decisions and AGM voting intentions is shining the spotlight on the ethical behaviour of corporates around the world – and none more so than the global banking organisations, who are seen by many to have still not atoned for their sins in recklessly causing the 2007/8 financial crash and…

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The risks of carrying on regardless

The risks of carrying on regardless

The need to identify, measure and mitigate business continuity risks has never been more relevant.

Strategic risks stop businesses achieving their strategic goals – they are the big risks, usually coming from outside the business, that are difficult to anticipate and mitigate for.

Key among them is the risk to business continuity: the ability of the business to continue to deliver its goods or…

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Where are all the well-paid, private sector, NED jobs?

Where are all the well-paid, private sector, NED jobs?

One of our NEDworks subscribers recently sent us an e-mail asking where all the well-paid, private sector NED roles are?

There were just three December private sector vacancies .. Is that all the vacancies from across the whole country? Am I missing something here?

 If it is, what are you doing to improve this position as it is hard to believe that this represents the market for NED roles for…

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What’s the risk? An inconvenient necessity or a source of competitive advantage?

What’s the risk? An inconvenient necessity or a source of competitive advantage?

Neil Woodford – cautious, conservative, contrarian, high-risk?

These words could all have been used to describe Woodford’s investment strategy at various times during his slow rise and sudden downfall – and they all give an indication of the degree of risk he was taking with his clients’ money.

It is well established in the investment industry that risk and reward tend to go hand in hand – the…

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What are the implications of the #FinTech war for talent?

What are the implications of the #FinTech war for talent?

FinTech – the application of cutting edge technology in the Financial Services Industry, in particular the use of Artificial Intelligence, is pitching global corporations against startups in a war for talent in pursuit of the scarce digital transformation and AI skills.

Thought leaders from the #RefinitivSocial100 recently discussed the skills challenges surrounding artificial intelligence (AI)…

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But what exactly is an "executive"​ Chairman?

But what exactly is an “executive”​ Chairman?

Congratulations to Sharon White on her appointment as the John Lewis Partnership’s executive Chairman to take up the role when Sir Charlie Mayfield steps down in early 2020.

Refreshingly, Sharon’s exclusively public sector experience was no barrier to her appointment – my experience working with boards in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors is that there is a lot the private sector…

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Machine Learning and Financial Services

Machine Learning and Financial Services

AI & MACHINE LEARNING

  Smarter Humans, Smarter Machines was the core theme of our closed-door #RefinitivSocial100 UK roundtable held in September 2019, with 10 of the UK and Europe’s most influential thinkers and thought-leaders on social media in the world of FinTech.

Banks have been saying for a very long time that the data they have is messy and needs to be cleaned. It doesn’t matter…

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Risk management is no longer just about financial risks

Risk management is no longer just about financial risks

Risk in business is inevitable – in fact it is essential. A business which does not take commercial risks will not grow, and a business which does not grow is doomed to decline.

Yet, by and large, people in business, as in life, are risk averse, seeking where possible to follow the path which provides the lowest perceived risk.

That is not to say that business leaders should behave recklessly,…

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It’s an ill wind that blows no good for the EU There's an old Chinese saying that "when the wind of change blows, some build walls whilst others build windmills" - well there's little evidence of either in the corridors of power in the EU according to Udo Baader, founder and head of German bank, Baader Bank, speaking at the Zagreb Stock Exchange Conference in Rovinj, Croatia, today.

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UK Corporate Governance Code 2018

UK Corporate Governance Code 2018

A new version of the UK Corporate Governance Code was published in July 2018 and takes effect from 1 January 2019.

Of the 2,600 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, only 1,200 are listed on the Main Market and of those around 850 have a Premium Listing and are therefore required to report on how they have applied the Code – though it is recognised as a best-practice guide to Corporate…