26 Nov, 2024 Investigations and enforcement trends in the Middle East By Matthew Shanahan Karl Masi Omar Khattab Hasanali Pirbhai +1 more... Show less In our fifth episode of the Inside Investigations podcast series, Middle East Head of Financial Services Regulatory, Matthew Shanahan,...
20 Nov, 2024 CP24/21 – significant rather than fundamental change By Jonathan Herbst Regarding CP24/21 relating to investment research payment optionality for fund managers, the punchline is that the FCA is going to take...
19 Nov, 2024 ICO, FCA, and TPR joint statement on data protection and effective communications to consumers By Rosie Nance Marcus Evans On 15 November, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and The Pensions Regulator (TPR)...
15 Nov, 2024 FCA ‘name and shame’ proposals to be fundamentally reshaped By Katie Stephen In oral evidence before the House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee on Wednesday, the FCA gave an update on its ‘name and...
15 Nov, 2024 Mansion House speech: Proposed changes to the FOS By Jonathan Herbst In her first Mansion House speech as chancellor, Rachel Reeves announced proposed changes to the Financial Ombudsman Service, including...
11 Nov, 2024 Market Watch 81 – the twist in the tail on transaction reporting By Jonathan Herbst On a first pass, Market Watch 81 might appear relatively uncontroversial in giving feedback on the FCA’s recent findings on transaction...
08 Nov, 2024 FCA investigation update highlights the importance of good governance By Katie Stephen Joe Smallshaw The FCA’s recently published warning notice statement in the Crispin Odey case may be a somewhat unusual example of a governance-related...
06 Nov, 2024 Failure to prevent fraud: government guidance published and countdown to new offence begins By Katie Stephen The government has today published general guidance on the new failure to prevent fraud offence and has confirmed the offence will come...
25 Oct, 2024 The results of the FCA's Culture and non-financial misconduct survey have been published: What do you need to know? By Katie Stephen Rebecca Dulieu Joe Smallshaw The FCA has published the results of its survey on non-financial misconduct. Set out below are (1) key findings; (2) next steps for the...
18 Oct, 2024 Bloodletting and securitisation - when the remedy is worse than the disease By David Shearer Christian Lambie Mirella Hart The year is 2009. Barack Obama has recently been elected (for the first time) and we are in the midst of the “great financial crisis”. He...
16 Oct, 2024 APP fraud: Mandatory reimbursement measures are not the end of the story… By Matthew Gregory On the 7 October, 2024 the Payment Systems Regulator (the ‘PSR’) landmark reform to tackle authorised push payment (‘APP’) fraud came...
07 Oct, 2024 Breadth of FCA’s supervisory power to require individual firms to pay redress confirmed by Court of Appeal in Bluecrest decision By Katie Stephen The recent Court of Appeal decision in the Bluecrest case sets expansive parameters for the scope of the regulator’s powers to require...