by Joanne Backshall | Apr 16, 2025 | Authorisations, Brokers, Compliance, Consumer Duty, Culture, Digital, Fair value, FCA, FCA Plan, Financial Crime, Governance, Insurers, Lloyd's, Operational Resilience, Operations, Pricing, Product Governance, Senior Managers and Certification Regime, Vulnerable customers
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled its Annual Work Programme for 2025–26, the new name for what was previously referred to as the ‘Business Plan’. The document sets out the new actions the FCA proposes to take, and the existing work it intends to...
by Joanne Backshall | Apr 16, 2025 | Compliance, Culture, Digital, Insurers, Lloyd's, Operational Resilience, Operations, PRA Plan, Pricing, Prudential Regulation Authority, Senior Managers and Certification Regime, Solvency
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published its Business Plan for 2025/26, outlining a strategic agenda that reflects not only evolving financial sector risks but also subtle recalibrations in regulatory posture. While the plan maintains continuity in many...
by Joanne Backshall | Mar 27, 2025 | Authorisations, Brokers, Compliance, Consumer Duty, Culture, Fair value, FCA, FCA Plan, Financial Crime, Governance, Insurers, Lloyd's, Operations, Pricing, Product Governance, Senior Managers and Certification Regime, Vulnerable customers
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launched its 2025-2030 strategy on 25th March, outlining a roadmap to enhance its regulatory effectiveness, ease the regulatory burden on firms and support the growth of the UK financial services sector. With Nikhil Rathi’s first...
by Kenneth Underhill | Nov 20, 2024 | Compliance, Culture, FCA
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has taken a significant step forward in addressing the rising regulatory focus on non-financial misconduct in insurance firms. In October 2024, the FCA published the findings from its non-financial misconduct survey, which was...
by Kenneth Underhill | Jul 2, 2024 | Compliance, Culture, FCA, HR, Lloyd's, Prudential Regulation Authority
In the FCA’s Notice to Provide Information letter of 6th February, it launched a sector-wide information gathering exercise to assess the volume of incidents being reported by individual firms related to acts of non-financial misconduct (“NFM”).It referenced its...
by Kenneth Underhill | Mar 19, 2024 | Appointed Representatives, Blueprint Two, Brokers, Climate Change, Compliance, Consumer Duty, Culture, Digital, Enterprise Risk Management, Environmental Social and Governance, Fair value, FCA, HR, ICSR News, Insurers, IT, Kenneth Underhill, Lloyd's, Multi Occupancy Buildings Insurance, Operational Resilience, Operations, Pricing, Product Governance, Prudential Regulation Authority, Risk, Solvency, Vulnerable customers
The latest edition of Horizons, our quarterly report for senior leaders across compliance, risk and regulatory roles within insurance firms is now available. This edition covers:IntroductionThe Longer-term HorizonQ1 2024 Issues: GeneralFinancial Services Future...
