Artificial Intelligence in Fund Board Governance 

Fund Boards Council supports charities

Many of us will recall the hype over recent years around new technologies such as blockchain/ distributed ledger technology (DLT) and more recently tokenisation, which were (and are still) expected to fundamentally change the fund management industry by reducing costs for investors, improving margins for managers and improving the security and scalability of operations.

FBC Digital Event: Consumer Duty – Fund Governance and the role of the CD Champion 

At this first FBC meeting focusing on the specific implications of Consumer Duty on fund board governance and the role of Consumer Duty (CD) champion, Frank Johnson, the iNED chair of the First Sentier fund board and its CD champion, and FBC senior adviser Simon Hynes, were joined for the discussion by senior members of the FCA asset management supervision team with cross sector experience: Aiden McEvoy, Anu Upadhaya and Michelle Dodd.

Aldcroft on Asia Pac 

Stewart Aldcroft

Well, that was a different summer!

Baking hot in Southern Europe, the US, Canada and most of Asia, pouring with rain in the UK. Forest fires in Canada and Greece.

FBC Digital Meeting: Assessment of Value – FCA’s Multi-firm review 

In an hour-long meeting on the 6th of September with 100 FBC members and a few invited guests, the FCA’s Garry Murdoch pointed to significant improvements in the AoV processes of the 14 firms in its second review, but argued there is still room for improvement in how firms’ undertook their value assessment

Viewpoint: Sheila Nicoll – EU Retail Investment Package

Assessment of Value

In the financial services regulatory world many of us are getting to grips with the reality of parallel universes. Post-Brexit, as we cross the Channel, we find ourselves having conversations and discussions which are, at least initially, strikingly similar but then go off in oddly different directions.