This report is the outcome of a research project conducted between June and November 2013 which explored how voluntary standards markets might be applied to financial services regulation and sought to provide independent verification of their potential in the financial services sector. The...

The Long Finance and London Accord community (over 48 financial institutions, thousands of people in finance and some 250 reports since 2005) has developed a simple, almost subversive, proposal for on climate change finance – index-linked carbon bonds. An indexlinked carbon bond is a...

The Not-for-Profit sector is a significant part of the economy. Not-for-Profit sector organisations have a duty to their stakeholders to provide evidence that they are using resources well. The authors have a few decades of Not-for-Profit client work and have conducted some original research...

Smaller Quoted Companies (SQCs) are the pinnacle of SME growth and account for over 2,000 companies outside the FTSE 350, comprising some 85% of all UK quoted companies. They employ some 2 million people, accounting for almost 10% of all private sector employment in Britain. They pay £20...