When we think of continuing professional development (CPD) often the first things to come to mind are attending lectures or taking formal qualifications. Professionals rarely consider the many small exchanges of information that occur between peers in an office or in coffee breaks, let alone online discussions, as building towards their CPD requirement. Social media… Read More Social media matters: finding quality CPD online
Too busy to read the news in full? Welcome to the wrap-up of the top ten most popular stories in the STEP online Digests throughout May. In case you missed them, here are the top STEP News Digest stories most clicked by our readers. IRS clarifies trust registration procedure: The US tax authorities have definitively… Read More STEP News Digest wrap-up – May’s top stories
STEP is introducing a new look to its qualifications in July this year with the launch of the Qualifications Framework. We will be giving more detail over the coming months in the STEP Journal and other channels, but it might be useful to give some background on the drivers for this change, and the resulting… Read More STEP moves towards a new qualifications structure
Welcome to the wrap-up of the top ten most popular stories in the STEP online Digests throughout April. In case you missed them, here are the top STEP News Digest stories most clicked by our readers. Probate court fees to rocket: The government is going ahead with dramatic increases to court fees. From 22 April the… Read More STEP News Digest wrap-up – April’s top stories
When STEP Members contact me for technical help on using our online services, the advice I provide is often based on the operating system of their computer. Most members are using a recent version of Windows but some are still running Windows XP, which increasingly is going to affect how you access STEP’s online tools.… Read More Are you due for an upgrade?
STEP only has a presence in one of the four fast developing MINT nations – a chapter in Mexico, with no presence for STEP in Indonesia, Nigeria nor Turkey. There are good reasons for the lack of a presence in those last three. STEP is not strong enough to develop everywhere without getting developmental indigestion… Read More A second MINT for STEP
A critical new online security exploit dubbed ‘Heartbleed’ was announced on Monday night after being discovered by a member of the Google security team. The vulnerability is widely considered to be one of the most serious security flaws in the history of the internet and has been potentially exploitable since December 2011. Heartbleed affects the coding… Read More Heartbleed Exploit: STEP’s response and cyber security measures you should take now
One of the recent debates on the Trust Discussion Forum has been about the circumstances in which a lasting, enduring, continuing power of attorney can properly be handed over. To whom does such a power of representation belong? When does ownership pass from the granter to the grantee? One solution can be to agree with… Read More Please Release Me, Let Me Go
We will always have our favourite reference books and much-thumbed precedents, however the world is constantly moving forward and the ‘Google it’ age is upon us whether we like it or not. I’ve decided if you can’t beat them, join them! You may have noticed that STEP has recently revamped its website. If you have… Read More Getting the most from STEP in practice
Having spent two days this week in Brussels at a meeting of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) private sector consultation forum discussing international anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, it was striking how two or three strands are now starting to dominate the debate. First is the growing divide between the big banks and what they… Read More Across the AML Divide: data sharing, de-risking and debate
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