Seven Topics Where Your Choices Make a Difference

Topics for Financial Professionals

Laws, technology, and clients are changing. What remains are the choices you make as a professional. Here you’ll find the seven themes that those choices most often revolve around today. For each theme, you’ll read articles by colleagues and experts, see what the Core Principles say, and learn the Ethics Enforcement body’s take on the matter. DSI was founded by and for the industry and therefore primarily gives the industry itself a voice.

Topics for Financial Professionals

In brief

  • The seven themes are integrity, compliance, sustainability, AI, cryptocurrency, the hybrid professional, and the new investor.
  • Each topic focuses on behavior and professional competence, not just on rules or technical skills.
  • For each topic, you’ll find articles, key principles, real-world cases from Ethics Enforcement, and an overview of regulations.
Insight & Inspiration

Articles on all topics

Thema’s

Dialogue Documents: The Industry in Conversation.

Dialogue documents bring together the perspectives of professionals and experts on a single topic. They are intended as a starting point for discussion within your own organization.

CTRL SHFT? 1.
CTRL SHFT?

Although digitization is not new, the rapid rise of AI is radically transforming the financial sector: it makes service delivery more efficient, but also raises new challenges.

Between the Lines 2.
Between the Lines

Sustainable finance is “hot”; in practice, “doing the right thing” turns out to be a complex challenge in which good intentions often clash with harsh reality.

Greenwashing: Let’s be real 3.
Greenwashing: Let’s be real

Greenwashing undermines the credibility of sustainable investing, but through concrete actions and industry-wide collaboration, the conversation remains active and the bar for integrity remains high.

From influence to responsibility 4.
From influence to responsibility

Social media has permanently changed financial communication: the enormous influence that finfluencers have on young people presents opportunities, but also urgently calls for greater responsibility, transparency, and action.

DSI Code of Conduct

One guide for all topics.

No matter which topic you’re reading about, the Core Principles provide guidance when there is no specific rule. They were developed by and for the industry.

One guide for all topics.
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