A significant overhaul of the safeguarding requirements for Authorised Payment Institutions (APIs) and Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs) is on the horizon.

The FCA is taking charge of non-financial misconduct by extending bullying & harassment prohibition to non-banking firms. This extension should be helpful for the industry, removing previous uncertainty about how to deal with employee disciplinaries and grievances from a regulatory perspective.

The FCA plans to speed up the authorisation process for firms and individuals to help support UK growth whilst maintaining robust checks.

To support firms's ability to hire talent, aspects of SM&CR are set to be removed and refined. It will be a welcome development by the industry, while the FCA aims to still preserve the core benefits of the regime.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a new platform that enables the trading of private company shares. PISCES (Private...

The FCA highlights good and bad practice on Complaints, Consumer Duty, Root Cause Analysis and Governance.

New rules to regulate buy-now-pay-later products announced by the Treasury

The new CCR009 return for Consumer Credit firms, asks tailored questions, reflecting firms' specific business models.

With the proposed change to the definition of regulatory capital for MIFIDPRU, the requirements should be easier to understand and apply

Thoughts from our compliance monitoring team on challenges and best practice when it comes to undertaking compliance monitoring in FCA regulated firms.

The FCA has announced a range of initiatives to help firms seeking authorisation or wanting to launch innovative products and services.

The proposals for asset managers are a meaningful change to AIFMD but they may not be positive for all AIFMs. We recommend assessing the impact on your firm and responding to the Call For Input if you see unintended consequences.