Tag: FCA

The UK FCA has unveiled a five-year strategy designed to crack down on market abuse, strengthen financial crime enforcement, and promote economic resilience. According to...

The FCA’s Consumer Duty, introduced in July 2023, has become a driver of change across UK financial services. Its goal—to ensure good outcomes for...

The FCA has announced it will not move forward, for now, with plans to extend its Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and sustainable investment labelling rules to portfolio managers, citing industry feedback that called for more time and clarity.

Regulatory enforcement saw a sharp decline in the first quarter of 2025, with both the volume and monetary value of fines significantly lower than...

The UK FCA is preparing to roll out a new live testing service for AI, designed to help financial firms deploy AI tools in...

In today’s financial services landscape, records management has become a complex compliance issue that firms can no longer afford to overlook. According to Corlytics,...

Financial firms relying on call recording for compliance, security, and operational insights are facing a critical deadline. Nice Trading Recording (NTR) systems will reach end-of-life (EOL) in September, putting organisations at risk of losing key data, breaching compliance requirements, and incurring greater costs without urgent action.

Since its official launch in July 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Consumer Duty has become a cornerstone of UK financial services regulation. Designed to ensure “good outcomes for retail customers”, the Duty has pushed financial institutions to rethink how they design, present, and support their products and services.

In today’s rapidly shifting regulatory landscape, firms are under mounting pressure to shift from reactive to proactive compliance. The days of treating compliance as a tick-box exercise are over. Increasingly, enforcement agencies demand that firms embed compliance into the fabric of operations—making traceability and connected controls central to staying ahead of risk and regulation.

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in financial crime compliance (FCC) operations is revolutionizing the banking sector. As of the Celent Dimensions Survey 2025,...