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If you are involved in the biggest demolition job in over a decade, you can expect that it will take a while for the dust to settle.
A Collective Defined Contribution scheme pools the contributions and pays a variable pension to members from the common pool. Unlike a conventional DC scheme, there are no individual investment accounts which ring fence each member’s contributions and investments. Collective Defined Contribution Schemes are back in the news.
What would you say if the regulator asked “Does your culture support the Senior Managers and Certification regime? And if the answer is yes could you answer their follow-up question –“What evidence have you got that it does”?
Professor Michael Mainelli, chairman of Z/Yen Group, outlines the current state and future challenges of cryptocurrency governance. By Jake Matthew. Republished with permission from the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI). A cryptocurrency operates independently of a central bank and uses an encrypted digital currency to regulate units and verification of fund transfers.
‘They say that small is beautiful. So, when it comes to embedding complex concepts that have a direct impact on staff behaviour – such as the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – microlearning has a vital role to play.
Research by the CISI reveals that individuals believe some misdemeanours are more acceptable than others. What drives our behaviour, and is there anything we can do to avoid falling into behavioural potholes? Picture this – you attend the birthday party of a close friend.
The six-monthly release of Financial Ombudsman Service [‘FOS’] complaints data to the end of June 2017 have just been issued.
Is the panic starting to set in with the deadline for MiFID II looming on the 3rd January? Recently it feels as though a day doesn’t go by without a new report outlining firms’ readiness.
Since the Government introduced the new Apprenticeship Levy, barely a day has gone by without a call coming through to CSA headquarters wanting further details on what it all means and how the Association can help its members use the Levy.
Steve Bee once told me that all workplace pensions are the same. In the context of the conversation (getting small employers to choose the right one), I knew what he meant, it is as hard for small employers to pick a winning pension provider as for me to pick the winner of the grand national.
My 13 year old daughter recently celebrated earning her ‘Skydiver’ badge and is also a newly appointed member of the ‘Hawaii Club.’ These ‘awards’ have been presented to her, along with weekly progress reports by the automated reporting of her new wrist worn fitness tracker.
In a conference room overlooking the 02 earlier this summer, two women sat face-to-face discussing regulation.
