How Risk and Compliance Functions Can Support the Net Zero Transition

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In July of this year, the Investment Association and Deloitte jointly published a report looking at how Risk and Compliance can support the net zero transition at investment management firms.

Our upcoming webinar in September 2022 will feature ESG experts from the IA and regulatory experts from Deloitte and discuss the key points of interest in the report including: 

• Regulatory expectations for investment managers around net zero
• Making credible net zero plans
• Governance, culture and incentives
• Climate risk management
• Greenwashing
• Thinking about ESG holistically

Join the discussion on this webinar and raise questions with the expert panel on how Risk and Compliance functions can facilitate their firm’s transition. Risk and Compliance functions can position their firm for the future, both in terms of competitiveness and resilience, as well as mitigate the reputational, conduct, regulatory and liability risks that may arise from failing to deliver against transition plan targets, poor plans, or poor disclosures. Find out more by signing up!

Galina Dimitrova, Director, Investment and Capital Markets, The Investment Association
Galina is a Director of Investment & Capital Markets at the Investment Association (the “IA”) and a member of the IA Executive Committee.
In her role, she has overall responsibility for the IA work on investments and capital markets, including quality of asset classes, such as Equity, Fixed Income, FX, Infrastructure and Private Markets. She also has oversight of all IA Special Committees and ETFs, as well as all trading, market infrastructure and investment operations’ matters relevant to IA members.
Central to her portfolio is helping members with the evolving Sustainability & Responsible Investment landscape and working together towards an economy, society and planet fit for the future.
Galina has over 10 years’ experience as an investment banker focusing on financial institutions. She is a member of the UK Risk Free Rate Working Group, the ICE LIBOR Oversight Committee, the Bank of England FX Joint Standing Committee and TheCityUK Board of Directors.

Paul Scaping, Public Policy Specialist, The Investment Association
Paul Scaping is a Public Policy Specialist at the Investment Association. He leads the IA’s advocacy work on climate change and the transition to net zero. In this role he is responsible for the IA Net Zero Forum which seeks to enable peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and provide a platform for all IA members to raise questions and find solutions in their journey to net zero. He is also responsible for the IA’s advocacy work on the transition to net zero in the wider economy. Paul has been at the IA for five years and was previously interim Head of Government Affairs before focusing on the IA’s engagement at Cop26. He previously worked in government relations consultancy after starting his career as a parliamentary researcher in the House of Commons.

Ruby White, Associate Director, Deloitte
Ruby is an Associate Director in Deloitte’s UK Sustainable Finance team with a particular focus on investment management, ESG strategy, data and net zero implementation. Ruby previously spent 8 years at UBS Investment Bank in their Equities division. Since joining Deloitte, Ruby has worked with several asset managers on large sustainability change programmes including ESG data, net zero implementation and regulatory delivery for TCFD, SFDR and EU Taxonomy reporting.

Rosalind Fergusson, Senior Manager, Deloitte
Rosalind Fergusson is a Senior Manager in Deloitte’s EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy, focusing on the impact of regulatory changes on the strategies and business/operating models of financial services firms. She specialises in sustainable finance regulation, in particular on transition plans, and has previously led the team’s work on conduct and capital markets. Before joining Deloitte in January 2012, she worked in financial services policy at HM Treasury. She started her career in the asset management industry, as an Associate Portfolio Manager.

James Parker, Global Regulatory Risk Manager, Aviva Investors
20 years fund industry experience across various roles, operations, marketing, product management, financial promotions. The last 12 years delivering major regulatory change – I love change and making the complex simple. The last 3 years I have been fulltime focussing on Sustainable Finance regulations – advising on delivery and training the business on the vast change agenda. I am a typical cynical Yorkshireman and like to think outside the box to create innovative pragmatic solutions.