Aspida News

Lezanne Kretschmer, our recently appointed Head of Company Secretarial Services, shares a personal account and anecdotes of what to expect and what it takes to relocate during a global pandemic.

Horizon scanning, taking into account future developments, known and indeed unknown, is a key expectation of regulators when it comes to their requirements of compliance functions. But what if that horizon includes big changes to the methods of your compliance oversight itself?

On 15th July 2021, the Commission issued its report on the thematic review on the reporting of suspicion of money laundering or terrorist financing. The thematic review comes after the Commission identified that some firms did not have effective policies, procedures and controls for the timely reporting of suspicion through their supervision process.

Our joint chair, Peter Mills has been sharing his insights into Conflicts of Interest and indulged in a little horizon scanning in the governance world with members of the Guernsey Association of Trustees at their AGM.

Climate Change, The Greta Effect, Fridays for Future, ESG, PRI, SFDR, TCFD and Greenwashing are just a few of the hot and getting hotter (unfortunate but necessary word choice for obvious reasons) topics which directors now need to take heed of.

Most board meetings start with a ‘Declaration of Conflicts” but how often do you nod them through, rather than stop and think about the wider impact the management of conflicts has on your day to day business? Regulators certainly pay increasing attention to them.

The annual process of renewing Professional Indemnity (PI) and Directors and Officers (D&O) Insurance covers is a necessary process which will be familiar to all local financial services businesses.

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