12/12/2024 3:30:27 PM Financial Regulation Legal Outlook 2025 By Stephen Clipsham Our Financial Regulation Outlook 2025 report explores the key regulatory developments that we expect to see in the Banking, Asset...
11/15/2024 9:02:09 AM Growth and competitiveness - a new strategy By Elizabeth Dowd Rachel Reeves has used her first Mansion House speech as Chancellor to put forward reforms aimed at making the UK financial services...
10/23/2024 3:38:56 PM AI-washing – the latest developments and how to mitigate the risk By Duncan Campbell As AI rapidly develops, it brings with it the risk that firms might be accused of ‘AI-washing’: ‘overselling’ their AI’s capabilities,...
8/19/2024 9:12:19 AM FCA fines auditor for failing to flag fraud suspicions By Sara Cody Simon Treacy The Financial Conduct Authority has fined PwC £15 million for failing to report its reasonable belief that London Capital & Finance (LCF)...
6/28/2024 5:22:01 PM Steve Smart on combatting financial crime: talk to each other more! By Duncan Campbell One year after Steve Smart became the FCA's joint executive director of enforcement and market oversight, he has broken his (sort of)...
5/21/2024 2:31:20 PM No you can't have FCA-Qatar communications: Upper Tribunal By Duncan Campbell The Banque Havilland saga continues. After important decisions on privilege and third party references, we now have an Upper Tribunal...
3/12/2024 2:15:31 PM UK plans to slow down payments where fraud is suspected By Harry Eddis Frances Hodgkins Arjun Lakhani Olivia Murphy Bethan Poole Simon Treacy +3 more... Show less Banks and other firms will be able to delay processing payments where there are grounds to suspect fraud, according to draft legislation...
2/9/2024 3:17:37 PM FCA encourages boards to question what they do to tackle financial crime By Simon Treacy A key pillar of the FCA’s current three-year strategy is to reduce and prevent financial crime. In an update at the midpoint of executing...
1/24/2024 5:33:35 PM Payments in 2024 #3 – Fighting back: A milestone year for tackling payment fraud By Harry Eddis Frances Hodgkins Arjun Lakhani Olivia Murphy Bethan Poole Simon Treacy +3 more... Show less Fraud is the most common crime in England and Wales. Not only are payment service providers on the front line when it comes to preventing...
10/27/2023 2:14:15 PM FCA reviews how payments firms stop money mules ahead of Government action plan By Simon Treacy Snapshot:FCA shares findings from review of payment account providers’ systems and controls against money mule activityFirms are...
8/20/2023 6:41:50 PM Have crypto, will travel - FCA sets out Travel Rule expectations for UK cryptoasset businesses By Jimi Piggott-Bader The FCA has set out its expectations for cryptoasset firms in complying with the incoming 'Travel Rule'. Under the Rule - which comes...