The EFFAS Commission on Environment, Social and Governance (CESG) held its Annual Conference in hybrid form in Vienna and via webinar on 16 September 2022. Around 30 people attended the event in person which was kindly hosted by ÖVFA at the Austrian National Bank and around 100 people joined the webinar. The speakers and discussion…
EFFAS would like to welcome Micheline Arsenault as the newest member of the Executive Management Committee (EMC) and look forward to her contributions in the meetings. Mrs. Arsenault was co-opted at the meeting held on 14 September 2022. She is taking over as the representative for AIAF from Ms. Zunino. The EFFAS EMC would like…
On September 14, on behalf of EFFAS, Dr. Jesús López Zaballos, the EFFAS Chair, handed over a symbolic donation cheque for €40,200 to Dr. Nils Gröppel, Corporate Partnerships at UNICEF Germany. Dr. Valeria Fauner, the EFFAS Director in Training and Qualifications, joined the Chair to hand over the cheque at the EFFAS Office in Frankfurt…
Madrid, 12 September 2022 IDIASEF, Institute for the development of Artificial Intelligence in the Financial and Insurance Sector, is born with the aim of becoming a meeting point between the academic and technological world and the world of business and real solutions. IDIASEF will focus on promoting collaboration and exchange between institutions and between professionals…
The EFFAS CESG (Commission on Environment, Social and Governance) is holding its annual hybrid conference on 16 September 2022 at the Austrian National Bank in Vienna from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm (CET). Global sustainability reporting standards, panels on: “The latest trends in ESG” & “Human capital at the heart of ESG and Intangibles”, the…
Following the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and first Committee meeting of the Institute of Financial Services Malta (ifs Malta), the new committee was elected and Kenneth B. Micallef was reconfirmed as President for the eighth consecutive year. Read more here.
Isabelle Grauer-Gaynor, Head of Corporate Finance and Reporting Unit of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), presents the role of the independent supervisory authority, the European counterpart of the AMF, and discusses the report analysing the way whose companies apply IFRS standards. Read more about this article wrote by the SFAF here.
The SFAF organized its graduation ceremony. This event was an opportunity to celebrate the 280 CIIA, CEFA and EFFAS Certified ESG Analyst® (CESGA) graduates from the 2020 and 2021 promotions. Read more here.
Markets in Crypto-assets (MiCA) Regulation, introduced in 2020, provides a sound legal framework for crypto-asset markets to develop within the EU by clearly defining the regulatory treatment of crypto-assets that are not covered by existing financial services legislation. To address these issues, EFFAS is preparing a specialised training programme for financial institutions, covering the mandatory…
The Association of Financial Analysts is one of Norway’s leading independent professional environments within finance. We have changed our name to «Association for Finance Norway». Read more here.