5/23/2025 12:57:49 PM What’s in STOR? ACER reports on its market surveillance findings By Oli Palmer Declan Mcloughlin The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators has published, for the first time, two reports on energy market surveillance as...
5/14/2025 10:44:21 AM Advice firm consolidation – five things to think about: 2025 supervisory and enforcement risks for investment advisers By Oli Palmer This is the third blog in a four-part series covering key supervisory and enforcement risks for investment advisers in 2025. The FCA has...
3/18/2025 11:50:03 AM FCA rejection of crypto firm application shows importance of effective risk assessments By James Morris Duncan Campbell Simon Treacy In a relatively rare crypto-related decision notice, the Financial Conduct Authority has chosen not to register a cryptoasset exchange...
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...