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.

Amended EuVECA Regulation And EuSEF Regulation In Force From 1 March 2018

A number of changes to the EU regulations covering European venture capital funds (EuVECA funds) and European social entrepreneurship funds (EuSEF funds) will be in force from 1 March 2018. The text of the regulation amending the EuVECA Regulation and the EuSEF Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017/1991) was published on 10 November 2017.

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. With Easter fast approaching and if thoughts of eggs are filling your heart, do take a look at this awesome mission.

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 phase includes expanding assets under management, building internal back, front and middle office.

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 in all sectors that have Compliance Departments.

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EU’s New Cross-Border Distribution Framework – Local Facilities in Member States

The new EU Directive 2019/1160 and Regulation 2019/1156 (the “Directive” and the “Regulation”) (together the “CBDF”) on the cross-border distribution of collective investment funds took effect on 2 August 2021. In an earlier update, we specifically examined the changes these made for UCITS and AIFs at the pre-marketing stage. In this update, we address the impact of the CBDF on the requirement to maintain local facilities across Member States.

Google and firms that advertise financial services

A little education for Lead Generators who are currently advertising their Lead Services on Google; it may lead to other online advertisers to take a similar stance. Google in July has made it mandatory that Firms that Advertise Financial Services must be either directly FCA Approved or be an Appointed Representative Firm of a Principal […]

Has the Appointed Representative Firm model for Regulatory Hosting and incubation changed in the UK since BREXIT?

Sturgeon Ventures LLP created and pioneered the wholesale Appointed Representative Firm in the early 2000s with the innovation of the market leading and award-winning, institutional Regulatory Incubation for starts ups and for overseas companies coming to the UK who wanted to set up a 1–2-person office, for example, to Arrange or Advise (depending on the […]