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FSC LAUNCHES LOCUM ADVICE FOR FINANCIAL ADVISERS WEBINAR


The FSC has launched an invaluable guide to help professional financial advice providers to plan for business succession in times of disruption and change: its Locum Financial Advice Arrangements – A Guide for Financial Advice Providers document. When financial advice was brought under the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 on 15 March 2021, industry regulation

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WHAT IS THE SWIFT SYSTEM: WHAT BUSINESSES NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS MESSAGING SYSTEM


Small businesses depend on financial intermediaries like banks to manage their money and facilitate wire transfers to pay their workers, suppliers, and manufacturers overseas. In turn, banks use SWIFT to process most of these cross-border payments between firms banked in different countries. This article lists what you need to know about the SWIFT messaging system.

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SCHOLARSHIPS, STIPENDS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORARIA: ESSENTIAL 1099 AND 1042-S REPORTING AND TAX WITHHOLDING COMPLIANCE


October 20, 2022 | 2.00PM EST

Does your institution make payments through Accounts Payable to students, instructors, researchers and academic visitors?  Internal procedures might identify a payment as a stipend or honorarium, fellowship, grant or scholarship – but what these have in common in tax compliance is a set of specific regulatory requirements which will determine whether payments are subject to

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HOW BANKS CAN MEASURE HIDDEN ESG RISKS?


Banks and other financial institutions are increasingly accounting for environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their portfolios. A particular area of focus has been on the environmental component, especially around decarbonization. Adopting a strategy focused on ESG or decarbonization, however, is easier said than done – in part because the strategy is only as