Strategy Lessons from Asia: How to handle the return to work 13 September 2021 It is important for organisations to get their “return to work” right — not just for employee and customer safety, but also to retain their workforce. Read more
Trends and the Future of Law The future for lawyers: Legal service in a cart? 22 March 2021 “There won’t be enough work to keep all traditional lawyers in practice, because the market will have moved to different ways of solving problems,” says Prof Richard Susskind OBE, President of the Society of Computers & Law in the UK. Read more
Governance, Risk & Compliance ASIC slow off the mark as retirees lose millions in Managed Investment Scheme 17 December 2020 The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched an internal investigation into whether it needed to do more to stop the marketing of Sterling First (Aust) Ltd and associated companies (Sterling First) to vulnerable elderly investors. Read more
Leadership & Strategy Warning: your business culture will be held accountable post-COVID 14 December 2020 One of the lessons companies need to learn from the pandemic is that a bad culture will come back to bite you. Read more
Leadership & Strategy Using FTAs to reduce costs and gain competitive advantage: RCEP a golden opportunity for CFOs 9 December 2020 Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) present stellar opportunities for companies to drive substantial cost savings, gain competitive advantage and optimize their supply chains. Read more
Governance, Risk & Compliance Public-private sectors must work together to restore trust, manage risks post-COVID 8 December 2020 The public and private sectors must work together more closely to restore trust and stability across international institutions and to enable them to respond more quickly to major risk events, a leading compliance expert has said. Read more
Governance, Risk & Compliance Ethics and risk management in the time of COVID 2 December 2020 Ahead of the Governance Institute’s Leadership Trust Foresight conference on 7-8 December 2020, Dr Klaus Moosmayer, Member Executive Committee & Chief Ethics, Risk and Compliance Officer, Novartis AG (Switzerland) speaks with Virginia Ginnane, Marketing Content Specialist, Thomson Reuters about steering an ethical business in this challenging time. Read more
Governance, Risk & Compliance New Zealand’s central bank takes on first major money laundering investigations 26 November 2020 New Zealand’s central bank is well advanced in its first major investigations into anti-money laundering and counter financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) compliance failures, as it ramps up its financial crime compliance enforcement presence. Read more
Governance, Risk & Compliance FinCEN leaks highlight need for “radical” approach to tackling financial crime 18 November 2020 Governments need to consider taking more “radical” measures to tackle financial crime threats in the wake of the FinCEN Files, even if there is a risk of “intelligence leakage”, an industry poll has found. Read more
Global Tax & Reporting EU mandatory disclosure rules for transactions with certain tax consequences 27 October 2020 In the European Union (EU), mandatory disclosure requirements (the DAC6 rules) now apply to certain types of cross-border transaction that have taxation consequences. Read more