Tag: Financial Conduct Authority

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 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...

Why the annual review may become a premium service

The annual review is itself under review, and according to WealthTech provider Ortec Finance, the commercial consequences could be profound. The Financial Conduct Authority's consultation...

Regulators cut SMCR red tape as reform wave begins

The Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority have unveiled the opening phase of their reform of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR),...

FCA unveils full digital assets regime, starting the clock now

The Financial Conduct Authority has published its complete cryptoasset regime, bringing to a close three years of policy development across five separate statements. As detailed...

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...

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