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  • Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement 2019

    • Created on 03 Jul 2020
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    Alfa Financial Software Limited (“the Company”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Alfa Financial Software Holdings PLC (“Alfa”), is committed to continually improving its practices to combat slavery and human trafficking.  Alfa and the Company has zero tolerance of modern slavery, in all its different forms, both in its business and in its supply chains.

    This is the Company’s fourth Modern Slavery Statement in response to the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (‘the Act’).  This statement sets out the steps taken during the financial year ended 31 December 2019 by the Company to prevent modern slavery and human trafficking in its business and supply chains. See the 2018 statement.

    During 2019, the Company has continued to focus on monitoring and the ongoing enforcement of the systems and processes in place to prevent modern slavery and human trafficking.  The Company remains committed to managing and mitigating the risk of modern slavery or human trafficking taking place anywhere in the business, or in any of its supply chains.

    Introduction

    The term modern slavery is a broad one, and considers someone to be in modern slavery if he or she is in forced labour, servitude, slavery, human trafficking, debt bondage, forced or servile marriage, descent-based slavery or child exploitation. It is a global and growing issue. No sector or industry is exempt from the potential for modern slavery. The Company has zero tolerance of modern slavery in all its forms, and has a responsibility to understand the risks in its business and supply chain and manage those risks accordingly.

    The Company’s modern slavery statement is made pursuant to section 54(6) of the Act, and constitutes the Company’s anti-slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ending on 31 December 2019. The Company aims to be transparent about its approach to modern slavery and this statement outlines its approach to prevent modern slavery and Human trafficking in its supply chain or in any part of the business.

    Our business and organisational structure  

    The Company is a leading developer of mission-critical software for the asset finance industry, operating across more than 26 countries and with more than 300 employees as at 31 December 2019. Alfa’s global annual turnover was £64.0 million in the year ended 31 December 2019. The Company is a fully owned subsidiary of Alfa, which is listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange and Alfa Financial Software Limited is the only company in the Alfa group which has revenues in excess of £36 million for the year ended 31 December 2019.   

    Modern slavery and human trafficking policies and framework

    As a software company, the Company does not use an extensive range of local or international suppliers where modern slavery or human trafficking would generally be a material risk.  Additionally, none of its suppliers are considered key to the business’s ongoing success. However, the Company is committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all of its business relationships, and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure slavery and human trafficking does not take place anywhere in the business or supply chains. 

    The Company’s policy to this effect is included in the Alfa Code of Conduct which details the policies in relation to ethics, anti-corruption and bribery.  The Company has undertaken a review of the anti-slavery internal controls during the year ended 31 December 2019, with the purpose of:   

    • Identifying, assessing and monitoring potential risk areas in the supply chains; and
    • Mitigating the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in the supply chains.

    Alfa has reviewed how it engages with its network of suppliers and what steps have been taken to understand how they comply with the requirements of the Act.   The Alfa Whistleblowing Policy also encourages its employees to speak up and report any potential signs of wrongdoing. This review has not led to revisions of the existing internal controls or policies. The Company has also assessed its procurement process and policy to ensure that there is an appropriate approach taken to managing modern slavery in its supply chain and to set out its expectations of its supply chain partners.  The Company has primarily reviewed the supply chains for the UK business during 2019, as this falls directly within the definition of the Act.  Additionally, The Company introduced secondary approvals for new suppliers or purchases across its overseas operations in the US, Europe, Australia and New Zealand with the purpose of increasing oversight of relationships with new business.  Due to the nature of the Company, we have identified that the overall risk to the facilitation of modern slavery was low, due to its limited supply chain.

    Due diligence processes for slavery and human trafficking

    As part of its initiative to identify and mitigate risk, the Company has increased its focus on modern slavery within its wider business operations, and will continue to do so during 2019 and beyond.

    Alfa has in place systems and processes to:

    • Identify and assess potential risk areas in its supply chains;
    • Mitigate the risk of slavery and human trafficking occurring in its supply chains;
    • Monitor potential risk areas in its supply chains; and
    • Protect whistleblowers.

    During 2019 the Company has undertaken a risk assessment of the top suppliers by expenditures, which includes the review and risk assessment of the industries and products / services that the Company purchases. 

    Training

    To ensure a high level of understanding of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking in the supply chains and to the business, the Company has provided either training or training updates on the modern slavery regulation to the relevant personnel or departments within the company who are directly involved in procurement or who have governance of procurement. During 2019, training was introduced as part of the induction for new employees and was incorporated into our annual regulatory training programme for existing employees.

    Effectiveness in combating slavery and human trafficking

    The Company understands that it has a responsibility to continue to assess and mitigate the risk of modern slavery in its supply chain in the long term. While the Company continues to make progress in this area, future developments will be to update understanding and reassess the nature of that risk, assessing whether policies and controls are appropriate and also to ensuring that controls to manage any risk are operating effectively if that risk arises. It is expected that the nature of the risk may change over time and ongoing vigilance will be required.

    To assess effectiveness of controls to ensure modern slavery does not exist within any of the business activities, the Company aims to, in 2020:

    • Reassess any modern slavery risks identified in light of any changes to the way the Company does business and put in place corrective actions in response to these risks in its business or supply chain as appropriate;
    • Ensure that modern slavery training is appropriate for all employees; and
    • Monitor government and other large companies’ perspectives on and approaches to modern slavery and actively consider their applicability to the Company.

    This statement is made pursuant to section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and constitutes the Company’s slavery and human trafficking statement for the financial year ending 31 December 2019.

    Signed by Andrew Denton on behalf of Alfa Financial Software Limited.

    Date: 10 June 2020

     

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