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Why IQ-EQ?

5800+

People

25

Jurisdictions

$750+ bn

Assets under administration

Cyprus is one of the top ten finance centres in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It has a reputation for cross-border structuring and is ideally placed for business in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

The island is considered one of the top global hubs for ship owning, ship management services, crew management and international ship registers. It’s an established location for international companies, individual entrepreneurs, family offices and fund managers to set up their headquarters.

  • Comprehensive service offering
  • Global network
  • ESG solutions
  • Proprietary technology solutions

Environmental, Social and Governance agenda

Our environmental, social and governance (ESG) agenda underpins IQ-EQ’s activities across all jurisdictions where we or one of our affiliates operate. It sets out our global approach to sustainable purpose and forms the basis of our decisions by focusing on business ethics and compliance, people and culture and community involvement.

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Our ESG roadmap

Our approach to sustainability is born out of our understanding that humanity stands at the crossroads of several interconnected global challenges highlighted by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These global challenges, which range from the climate emergency, to inequality, and to poverty, require urgent action from all sections of human society, including from companies. It is our fundamental belief that companies will be core to the creation of profitable solutions to the problems of people and planet.

For us, although we are early in our corporate sustainability and ESG journey, we believe we have a responsibility to embrace sustainability, and to contribute, in whichever way we can, whether through our operations or in how we support our clients, to these solutions. To drive our sustainability and ESG ambitions and to help promote responsible and ethical behaviour across our value chain, we launched our sustainability team in 2021.

Our Sustainability Strategy and Targets

Our sustainability strategy is based upon four key pillars – people, clients, planet, and governance, which, we believe, are fundamental to the longevity of our business. The strategy is heavily influenced by our commitment to powering people. We believe that to thrive in the future, fairness and transparency must be entrenched into our governance systems, and that we must enforce accountability, and hold each other accountable for our behaviours, our culture, and the ethical standards we aspire to. Our strategy is also, heavily influenced by our understanding that we need to take proactive actions towards reducing our carbon footprint, the usage of natural resources and energy, and the need to eliminate waste sent to landfill.

As we are relatively early in our corporate sustainability and ESG journey, Our sustainability strategy has naturally developed over 2022, and we expect will continue to evolve as we seek to fully integrate our approach to sustainability across our business. Despite this however, we expect the core focus of the four pillars to remain constant and are outlined below.

Core Focus

We Value Our People – we want our people to be able to be themselves, thrive and succeed.

We Value Our Clients – we commit to excellent client service and will support them on their ESG journey.

We Value Our Planet – we aim to reduce our impact on our environment.

We Value Strong Governance – we strive to uphold ethical standards, manage our risks, and protect our stakeholders’ data.

Working in a sustainable and compliant manner

We help global investors focus on investing and preserving capital in a sustainable and compliant manner.

  • We are a trusted partner providing high quality personalised investor services.
  • We help our clients and the sector to stay compliant.
  • We act as a guardian and facilitate our client’s investments.
  • Our people invest the time to get to know our clients, so that we know how to best service them.

We are delighted to announce the achievement of an important milestone in our commitment to sustainability and responsible business practices. In the latest assessment conducted by leading ESG ratings agency, EcoVadis, IQ-EQ has been rated Gold. Our scorecard places us in the 96th percentile of the 100,000+ companies rated by EcoVadis to date.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We know that the future success of the business world, and not just our business, relies on people with different perspectives, experiences, knowledge and skills.

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Community

Our people are the driving force behind our corporate social responsibility, actively driving our commitment to supporting the communities in which we operate.

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Planet

We know there is only one planet and as such we place great emphasis on environmental sustainability both globally and locally.

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Due diligence

Anti-bribery

We're committed to maintaining the highest levels of legal and ethical standards, operating in an honest and transparent way without bribery or corruption.

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Anti-slavery

Slavery, human trafficking and forced labour have no place in or around IQ-EQ Group, and our modern slavery policy and procedures strengthen our approach to tackling any risk.

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Legal

IQ-EQ Group consists of a number of companies that together provide a full range of investor, fund, accounting and administrative services worldwide.

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Working with IQ-EQ has been seamless – you and your team understand our business, advise us appropriately, and handle your side of our collective partnership so that we can focus on making good investment decisions. Evan Gibson SVP, Merchants Capital

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