Sustainable Finance coming To The Core Of The Investment Community
Sustainable Finance coming to the Core of the Investment Community using ESG for Socially Responsible Investments: The European Commission has published its package of proposals in relation sustainable finance. It is encouraging responses to the proposals.
Sturgeon Ventures Calls For More Agile Working To Tackle Gender Pay Gaps
Please see below a response by Seonaid Mackenzie, Founding Partner at Sturgeon Ventures, to the Gender Pay Gap Data being issued by companies with over 250 employees. Sturgeon Ventures is a pioneer of regulatory incubation in the UK’s financial services industry.
Happy Easter from the pioneer of Regulatory Incubation
Sturgeon Ventures celebrates Easter by delivering A MessagePad celebration, change and chocolate. We have sponsored an egg with Paul Young, an entrepreneur in the field of fine chocolate. Paul added the rainbow sprinkles to our egg to compliment our love of a little colour in all our brands.
Sturgeon Shortlisted For Two HFM European Hedge Fund Services Awards
Sturgeon Ventures are pleased to announce that they have been shortlisted for two HFM European Hedge Fund Services Awards 2018, Best advisory firm – regulation and compliance and Best hedge fund platform.
Two Wins for Sturgeon – M&A Today Global Awards 2018
Sturgeon Ventures are pleased to announce that they have won two awards in this year’s M&A Global Awards – 2018: Best Regulatory Incubator 2018 FinServ Gamechanger Innovation Award 2018 – UK More about the awards:
Project Harar Complex Mission 2018 – Five Days to go
Jackie Riley (jr@sturgeonventures.com) who many of you know in our Fund Monitoring Team is leaving London in 5 days from now to be part of this amazing work www.projectharar.org. Sturgeon Ventures has already donated 3,000 eggs (in true honour of being an incubator) for the project to help nourish the children pre and post operations. […]
The FCA’s 11 Principles for Regulated Firms – Core Values
Financial Services Start-ups – Ensure you go to a Regulatory Hosting Firm with Integrity, the 1st FCA Principle. Sturgeon Ventures having incubated people and firms for the past 20 years, prides its pioneered model of the Regulatory Incubator on focusing on the FCA’s 11 Principles at its core.
FCA Asset Management Hub
The FCA Asset Manager Authorisation Hub was launched in October 2017, has a number of new authorisation case workers and a dedicated portal to assist authorisation as an asset manager. Since 1999, Sturgeon Ventures has been here to support new managers during the Incubation Phase where companies work towards being ready for direct authorisation. This […]
Women in Compliance Awards 2018 – Nomination
Seonaid Mackenzie has been shortlisted in the Women in Compliance Awards 2018 within the “The Mentor Award of the Year for Advancement of Women in Compliance” category. The award ceremony takes place on 22nd March 2018 and celebrates the achievements of female compliance professionals in the changing and dynamic Financial Services Industry, across multi-national companies and […]
2018 – MIFID II and PRIIPS for the Fund Industry
The FCA has had a busy Christmas as the Financial Industry focused on launching many changes including MIFID II and PRIIPS for the Fund Industry. Many firms took this change as a reason to close their UK FCA Regulated Firm and move to the EU now ahead of BREXIT or considering closing their own directly authorised […]