Frankfurt, 2 June 2021 The XBRL Europe Digital Event on Sustainability/ESG will be held on Thursday 24th June from 14:00 to 17:00. Over a period of two hours several presentations will be made on Environmental, Social, and Governance reporting. This event is part of the XBRL Europe digital week (24 June – 28 June). Please…
Milan, 20 May 2021. On their ESG Observatory Nr. 132, AIAF has published the paper on the emerging risk to ESG risk litigation. To date, the ESG risk litigation has largely focused on climate change and catastrophic environmental events. However, while climate change will continue to have an important influence to ESG risk litigation, the…
Prof. Dr. Bassen will participate on Wednesday, 2nd June in the Panel 1 on “The Capacity Building and Training for ESG and Sustainable Finance” to present some facts and figures about the EFFAS CESGA. With unanimous support from the ASIFMA Sustainable Finance WG and AAMG ESG Group, ASIFMA is bringing a new conference to its…
Frankfurt, 19 May 2021 The EMC approved in the EMC meeting today, the applications for the members of the EFFAS Capital Markets Commission (CMC). Mr. Angelo Dipasquale (AIAF, Italy), Mr. Thorsten Müller (DVFA, Germany) and Mr. Mag. Stefan Maxian have been appointed for the period June 2021-June 2024. Together with Ms. Barbara Cohen, these professionals…
Frankfurt, 19 May 2021 The EFFAS Executive Management Committee (EMC) approved in their meeting today the application of Mr. Jan Westring to the Commission on ESG issues. He is a member of the Swedish Society of Financial Analysts SFF, CEFA (EFFAS Certified European Financial Analyst-1995) and CESGA (Certified ESG Analyst-2016) holder with wide ranging experience…
19 May 2021 On Thursday 10 June 2021 AIAF, EFFAS and SFAA are holding a webinar titled “The IFRS 17 revolution of (Re)Insurance Industry. Europe is moving forward with the endorsement process of IFRS 17 while some critical points have emerged in the application and the internal and external financial communication. The event aims to…
The upcoming CESGA Common Exam session to be held on June 11th 2021, counts 487 registered candidates, 20% more than the previous call Up to date, a total of 1,564 professionals from around the world already have the CESGA title granted by the European Federation of Financial Analysts Associations (EFFAS) and are Certified ESG (Environmental,…
The training centreof the Fundación de Estudios Financieros, Escuela FEF, and Banco Cooperativo Español have signed an agreement whereby the professionals of this banking entity, its investment fund manager and the Caja Rural Group, who provide financial advice, will participate in the EFFAS certified ESG Essentials course, aimed at training and certifying these professionals in…
In celebration of this year’s Earth Day on 22 April, Friends of the Earth (HK) have organised the Earth Forum to support the environmental movement. This is an online event to be held in English on 22 April 2021 at 10:-12:00 CET / 16:-18:00 HKT. The topic for discussion is “Green Finance as a Catalyst…
On 12th March 2021 400 candidates from 31 different countries sat the exam to become EFFAS Certified ESG Analysts. Of these candidates 87% took the exam online, which is not surprising considering the lasting effects of the pandemic, while the remainder chose to attend one of our venues which were able to offer the exam…