Tag: FCA

The compliance research crisis no one is fixing

Picture the scene: a financial institution is onboarding a new corporate client with operations spanning the UAE, the UK, and the EU. Before any...

How the FCA is rewriting the rules on RegTech innovation

For years, the prevailing assumption in technology circles has been that regulation and innovation are fundamentally at odds. Napier AI's experience inside the Financial Conduct...

How regulatory reform is exposing MiFIR governance cracks

Transaction reporting has always been the backbone of market abuse surveillance, but the rules of the game are shifting. As regulators deepen their reliance...

UK moves to simplify climate risk reporting for investors

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK's conduct regulator for financial services firms and markets, has proposed scrapping mandatory TCFD-based product-level climate disclosures for...

Why AI is reshaping regulatory oversight for good

Financial regulation has always required comparison, but the tools to do it well have never kept pace with the complexity of modern markets. As...

FCA CP26/16: what UK fund managers must do now

The FCA's latest consultation paper is not explicitly about anti-money laundering, but for UK fund managers, it may as well be. According to Cascade,...

How to fix broken KYC records before regulators do

Regulated financial institutions are operating under sustained and intensifying scrutiny to keep customer records accurate, current and audit-ready. According to KYC360, recent enforcement actions by...

How to stress-test a compliance archive before regulators do

Communications archiving has transformed from a back-office checkbox into one of the most fiercely contested battlegrounds in regulated technology this year. Twelve months ago,...

What the FCA’s focus on ESG ratings means for the sector

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK’s financial regulator, recently announced its plans to regulate ESG ratings, with the aim to make them more...

Why manual KYC is now a strategic liability

Compliance teams at regulated firms are caught in a losing battle. Half their working day is absorbed by repetitive, manual tasks — yet the...

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