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Compliance and Information

Security work from home guidelines
for Acuity Knowledge Partners
Employees

20-MARCH-2020
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Change history
Date Owner Version Change Reference

18 March 2020 Compliance and Information Security 1.0 Initial version

The responsibility of ensuring that this document is reviewed in line with information security management system review
requirements rests with the owner.

Approvers
Name Position Version Approved Date Approved
Acuity Knowledge Partners
1.0 March 19 2020
Executive Committee

Distribution list
Name Position/Available at Date Published

All employees (global) 20-Mar-2020

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General working-from-home guidelines

 You need to continue to work your usual office hours, unless advised otherwise by your manager.

 You are expected to be as responsive and available as normal.

 Please communicate with your co-team workers and manager via appropriate channels (i.e. not social media).

 Please continue to maintain the highest standards of work quality.

 If you face technical challenges, please contact Helpdesk@acuitykp.com.

While these are exceptional times, please see the below important guidelines to maintain our important standards of
Compliance and information Security.

Compliance and Information Security: Work-from-home guidelines for Acuity

Knowledge Partners employees
 Acuity Knowledge Partners’ (Acuity) employment terms require you to maintain confidentiality of information during your
employment with the company; this applies when you are working from home as well.

 Employees should never discuss any aspect of clients’ confidential/proprietary information, even in the most general
terms, with family members or outsiders while working from home or remotely.

 Employees should avoid allowing family members or outsiders to view the screen while working from home.

 Employees must always store work-related content in client-specific/authorised drives only.

 Uploading/downloading data to non-client drives/websites is strictly prohibited.

 Practise the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy; always follow the need-to-know approach for any information related to the
client/project.

 Using the client’s identity or brand on social media is strictly prohibited.

 Sharing user IDs, passwords, tokens, Citrix access and other links is strictly prohibited.

 Use clients’ email IDs for client-related communications only. Do not send/forward clients’ email/content to non-client
email IDs.

 Any and all incidents that may compromise or lead to the compromise of Acuity’s/clients’ compliance policies should be
immediately reported to the compliance and information security teams.

 Before clicking ‘send’, double-check the list of recipients, as there could be individuals with identical names in different
teams.

 Do not access Acuity/client systems via public computers, such as those in internet cafes, libraries, airports, coffee
shops, etc.

 Employees must comply with the client’s work-from-home guidelines as well.

 Employees are prohibited from printing any Acuity/client information while working remotely.

 Always lock or shut down the machine when you are not in front of your machine or are not using it.

 Do not access any prohibited websites when you are working remotely.

 Employees must take precautions, as necessary, to maintain the confidentiality of Acuity’s/clients’ proprietary
information and trade secrets and prevent unauthorised access to any Acuity/client systems.

 Employees must comply with the Acuity IT Use Policy, which is amended from time to time.

 During this arrangement, the employee will continue to remain bound by all Acuity policies and procedures, including
(but not limited to) the Acuity Code of Business Conduct.

There would be no exceptions made to the above until and unless deemed fit by the organisation and its management. Any
breach of the above guidelines may result in disciplinary action.

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NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT TO THE CONTRARY, ACUITY KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS IS NOT AGREEING TO
ANY LEGAL OR CONTRACTUAL TERMS, CONDITIONS, OR OBLIGATIONS IN CONNECTION (AS APPLICABLE). ACUITY KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS
EXPRESSLY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO FULLY AND FREELY NEGOTIATE ALL RELEVANT LEGAL TERMS (AS APPLICABLE).
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS PROTECTED BY LAW AND NONE OF SUCH INFORMATION MAY BE COPIED OR OTHERWISE
REPRODUCED, REPACKAGED, FURTHER TRANSMITTED, TRANSFERRED, DISSEMINATED, REDISTRIBUTED OR RESOLD, OR STORED FOR
SUBSEQUENT USE FOR ANY PURPOSE WHATSOEVER, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, IN ANY FORM OR MANNER OR BY ANY MEANS WHATSOEVER,
BY ANY PERSON WITHOUT ACUITY KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT.
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE AND RELIABLE. BECAUSE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF HU MAN OR
MECHANICAL ERROR AS WELL AS OTHER FACTORS, HOWEVER, ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT
WARRANTY OF ANY KIND.
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ACUITY KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS AND ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS,
REPRESENTATIVES, LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS DISCLAIM LIABILITY TO ANY PERSON OR ENTITY FOR ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL LOSSES OR DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE INFORMATION
CONTAINED HEREIN OR THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE ANY SUCH INFORMATION, EVEN IF ACUITY KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS OR ANY OF ITS
DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES, LICENSORS OR SUPPLIERS IS ADVISED IN ADVANCE OF THE POSSIBILITY
OF SUCH LOSSES OR DAMAGES.
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ACUITY KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS AND ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS,
REPRESENTATIVES, LICENSORS AND SUPPLIERS DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ANY DIRECT OR COMPENSATORY LOSSES OR DAMAGES CAUSED
TO ANY PERSON OR ENTITY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO BY ANY NEGLIGENCE (BUT EXCLUDING FRAUD OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF LIABILITY
THAT, FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, BY LAW CANNOT BE EXCLUDED) ON THE PART OF, OR ANY CONTINGENCY WITHIN OR BEYOND THE
CONTROL OF, ACUITY KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS OR ANY OF ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, REPRESENTATIVES,
LICENSORS OR SUPPLIERS, ARISING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN OR THE USE OF OR INABILITY
TO USE ANY SUCH INFORMATION.
WITH RESPECT TO THE INFORMATION PROVIDED HEREIN, ACUITY KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS HEREBY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS
OR IMPLIED IN RELATION TO FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

About Acuity Knowledge Partners

Acuity Knowledge Partners, formerly part of Moody’s Corporation, is a leading provider of bespoke research, analytics, staffing and
technology solutions to the financial services sector.
Headquartered in London, Acuity Knowledge Partners has nearly two decades of transformation experience in servicing over 300
clients with a specialist workforce of over 2,500 analysts and delivery experts across its global delivery network.
We provide our clients with unique assistance not only to innovate, implement transformation programmes and increase operational
efficiency, but also to manage costs and improve their top lines.
Our expertise includes the following:
 Investment Banking: origination and trading support
 Investment Research support: covering all asset classes in terms of ideation, data science, and research support across the buy
side and sell side
 Commercial Lending support: across origination, credit assessment, underwriting, and covenant and portfolio risk for all
lending types
 Private Equity: origination, valuation and portfolio monitoring support
 Asset Management services support: across marketing, investment research, portfolio management/optimisation, risk and
compliance
 Corporate and Consulting services: market and strategic research; survey work; treasury and counterparty risk support; and CEO
office support, including M&A, FP&A and investor relations support
 Compliance support: AML analytics, KYC, counterparty credit risk modelling and servicing across banks, asset managers and
corporates
 Data Science: web scraping, data structuring, analytics and visualisation These services are supported by our proprietary suite
of Business Excellence and Automation Tools (BEAT) that offer domain-specific contextual technology.
These services are supported by our proprietary suite of Business Excellence and Automation Tools (BEAT) that offer domain-specific
contextual technology.
Acuity Knowledge Partners is assisted by Equistone Partners Europe, a leading private equity organisation that backs specialist growth
businesses and management teams.

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