The Financial Conduct Authority is stepping up its work on AI in financial services. The results of its recent AI Sprint show how...

Consultation season is coming, as the FCA publishes a roadmap for regulatory simplification. The FCA has published its feedback statement...

Journey mapping to identify potential ‘sludge’ and innovative uses of data analytics: just two examples of good practice in the FCA’s...

After the seemingly endless stream of Consumer Duty publications published in the first year after go-live, the apparent pause in recent...

In a recent speech drawing on comparisons with Alexander the Great, FCA Chief Executive, Nikhil Rathi, detailed initiatives designed to...

  Come and join us for a half-day Spring Outlook conference (register here) on 19 March in our Linklaters London Office where we will be...

This is the first blog in a four-part series covering key supervisory and enforcement risks for investment advisers in 2025.  A year on...

The FCA has published the key findings of a review of firms’ approaches to complaints and root cause analysis, setting out examples of...

The FCA has published the findings of its review into firms’ approaches to the preparation of the first annual Consumer Duty Board...

Our Financial Regulation Outlook 2025 report explores the key regulatory developments that we expect to see in the Banking, Asset...

In December 2023, the government and the FCA put forward proposals to improve how people can access help with their investments...

It has been a while since the FCA last looked in detail at consolidation, but a Dear CEO letter sent to financial advisers and investment...

The FCA is forming some pretty pointed concerns about firms' value assessments.  It has observed that many firms have found them...

Sheldon Mills is talking about frogs again.  Small mercies, though: in this latest speech (at an FCA hybrid event on 31 July 2024) he was...

The FCA has published its findings from a review of larger insurance firms’ approaches to outcomes monitoring under the consumer duty....

  This week, I bought a car. On Monday morning, as I was dotting the ‘i’s and crossing the ‘t’s on the finance documents, the sales...