Tag: FCA

Five firms join FCA’s scale-up support unit

The Financial Conduct Authority, the UK's financial services regulator, has welcomed five firms into its Scale-up Unit, offering tailored regulatory support to help them...

FCA eases IPO rules in bid to revive UK listings

The FCA has simplified its rules governing IPOs in a move designed to make the UK listings market more competitive against other global exchanges. Among...

Fragmented AML tools are costing EMIs dearly

Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs) are rethinking how they fight financial crime, moving away from stitched-together compliance stacks towards single, unified anti-money laundering (AML) platforms....

FCA reporting overhaul to save firms £100m a year

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK's financial services regulator, has confirmed a package of reforms to transaction reporting that it claims will deliver...

Regulators unleash AI as ad complaints become obsolete

The golden rule of advertising compliance has quietly been rewritten. For decades, a misleading ad only attracted regulatory attention if a consumer was annoyed...

The hidden cost of UK EU regulatory divergence post Brexit

The regulatory rulebooks of the UK and the EU, once built on an identical foundation of European financial services law, are steadily pulling apart,...

AI money managers loom for 10 million UK adults

More than 10 million UK adults could soon see their finances managed by an AI agent, according to a landmark review published this week...

Why silence in FinTech promotions is now a regulatory risk

If the Revolut fine in Italy proves anything, it is that regulators police the gaps in financial promotions just as vigorously as the claims...

Why fragmented AML defences are losing to networked crime

The future of financial crime detection will hinge less on how well individual firms manage risk in isolation, and more on how effectively the...

The FCA’s sanctions review and why it demands urgent firm action

The FCA's latest sanctions review, spanning more than 150 firms, is far more than another best-practice publication. According to ACA Group, it signals how...

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