The City Remuneration Summit 2022 | City & Financial Global | 15 March 2022 | Virtual

This summit now in its fifteenth year, is widely recognised as the most important event in the calendar for remuneration, reward and compensation specialists. Last year’s event featured an unparalleled speaker panel and attracted over 220 influential and well-connected remuneration specialists.

The Summit is unique in that it focusses exclusively on FCA regulated firms and the particular challenges facing them in terms of balancing fixed and variable remuneration to reflect their culture and risk appetite. This year’s Summit has been comprehensively revised and updated to take account of the shift in priorities in relation to executive pay. Top of the agenda is the relationship between executive pay and companies’ ESG record and disclosures, particularly in the context of climate change. Much of this is driven by increasingly active institutional investors who are scrutinising how pay is linked to companies’ social responsibility, including their commitment to diversity and inclusion. Other issues to be addressed include the impact of the FCA’s proposals for investment firms; the remuneration and reward proposals under the Fifth Capital Requirements Directive (CRDV), particularly in relation to material risk takers; the role of the Remuneration Committee in scrutinising executive reward strategies and the importance of culture in driving the right behaviours.

Topics To Be Addressed Include:
• Developing a remuneration strategy which complies with current and future regulatory obligations
• The link between executive pay and climate change: can bonuses be used as an incentive to reduce emissions?
• Major shareholders as ESG activists: implications for investee company remuneration policy
• The practical impact of latest developments on remuneration in the banking industry
• Employee engagement and reward in a competitive recruitment landscape: tactics for employee retention
• Gender and ethnicity in financial services: how can remuneration and reward drive forward the agenda
• The role and responsibilities of the Remuneration Committee: how can RemCo Chairs satisfy themselves their firm’s remuneration strategy encourages the right behaviours?
• Focus on the asset management industry: the impact of the latest regulatory reforms including the new prudential regime for investment firms
• The importance of culture in driving a responsible remuneration strategy

Who should attend?
This event will be of benefit to senior management of all financial institutions, including: chief operating officers; heads of compensation, benefits and rewards; heads of human resources; heads of internal audit; heads of compliance; heads of legal and heads of tax, as well as by their legal and financial advisers.

2022 Speakers

Alexandra Beidas
Partner, Global Head of Employment and Incentives, Linklaters

Bradley Richardson
Partner, Linklaters

Simon Shipgood
Regional Director EMEA, EWM Global

Tom Gosling
Executive Fellow in Finance, London Business School

Michael Hutcheson
Head of Variable and Regulatory Compensation, NatWest plc

Matthew Hunter
Managing Associate, Tapestry Compliance

Sophie Addyman
VP, HR Reward, Deutsche Bank

Duncan Nicholls
Partner, PwC

Phillippa O’Connor
Partner, Head of Reward and Employment Practice, PwC

Tracy Clarke
Non-Executive Director, Chair of the Remuneration Committee, TP ICAP

George Yeandle
Non-Executive Director, Chairman of the Remuneration Committee, Liontrust

Lesley Knox
Independent NED and Chair of the Remuneration Committee, L&G

Sonia Jenkins
Global Head of Reward and Wellbeing, Schroders

Elena Petrou
Head of Share Schemes, Aviva

Olivia Herbert
Quintet Private Bank

David Blunt
Independent Consultant and former Head of Conduct Specialists at the FCA

Stuart Woodward
Managing Director, Compensation and Benefits, Credit-Suisse

2022 Sponsors

PREMER:
• Linklaters

SPONSORS:
• EWM Global
• PwC
• Tapestry