ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and Allinial Global have announced a brand new partnership.

Their new collaboration highlights a new stream of opportunity for legally independent accounting and consulting firms to further increase their knowledge and skills within the finance industry. ACCA and Allinial Global’s partnership will enable Allinial Global to offer ACCA’s online courses and recorded webinars for purchase through their learning management system.

Brussels, 13 March 2020 – Yesterday, the European Commission officially presented the Taxonomy: final report of the technical expert group on sustainable finance. This report sets the performance thresholds for economic activities to help identify the ones considered environmentally friendly and ultimately supports the growth of low carbon sectors.

2019 was a coming of age year for data privacy in the European Union. With the GDPR firmly established, we saw shifting consumer expectations, shifting regulatory scrutiny and shifting terms of business. This is precisely why, as things move faster and further, the efficient, quick-to-adapt nature of self-regulation is so essential as we move forward.

Photonics and a whole host of Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) have been identified as drivers of the industrial and digital transformations of Europe in the European Commission’s new Industrial Strategy for Europe.

On 14 February, our lead market directors Soo Yee Leong and Lucia Real-Martin provided an update about the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak. Since then we’ve been in close contact with our members, students and partners in Greater China, and subsequently in other impacted countries, on practical and logistical issues to provide support, and share knowledge and ideas.

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