Global RegTech firm Wordwatch has introduced an investigation readiness assessment tool in line with the FCA’s Conduct Rules extension on September 1, 2026.
The assessment runs to thirteen questions and takes about four minutes. It scores whether a firm could investigate an allegation across every communications channel, with records that hold up.
From 1 September 2026, the FCA’s Conduct Rules will take a significant step beyond traditional financial misconduct, as serious work-related bullying, harassment and violence become explicitly subject to the regime at non-banking firms covered by the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR).
The change brings around 37,000 additional regulated firms within the FCA’s strengthened framework for non-financial misconduct (NFM), bringing the treatment of serious workplace misconduct at non-banks more closely into line with the rules already applying to banks.
Wordwatch said, “Most firms have the policy side covered. The harder question is whether they can evidence to the FCA what actually happened, across every channel, once an allegation lands.”
To start the assessment today, click here.
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