Tag: Financial Conduct Authority

How Theta Lake is helping regulators define safe AI

As artificial intelligence reshapes financial services at pace, the question of what responsible adoption actually looks like in practice has become one of the...

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...

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...

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,...

Stablecoin rules must change, peers warn regulators

A House of Lords committee has warned that the UK's stablecoin regulatory framework risks being outpaced by international rivals and has called on regulators...

Parliament receives landmark UK financial services reform bill

The UK government has introduced the Financial Services and Markets Bill to Parliament, a sweeping piece of legislation designed to modernise sector regulation, strengthen...

FCA conduct rules 2026: what compliance leaders need

On 1 September 2026, the FCA's Code of Conduct will extend to cover bullying, harassment and discrimination across every FCA-authorised organisation — not just...

Bank of Ireland UK fined £3.78m for CoP delay

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has fined Bank of Ireland UK £3,779,300 after the lender failed to implement Confirmation of Payee (CoP) by its...

FCA annual programme signals tougher oversight ahead

The Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) Annual Work Programme for 2026/27 offers the clearest picture yet of how the regulator plans to supervise firms as...

APP fraud regulation: What Europe’s PSR means for banks

Criminals do not recognise borders. When a victim is manipulated into authorising a fraudulent payment transfer — a tactic the industry variously labels APP...

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