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 | 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 | Feb 28, 2025 | Appointed Representatives, Blueprint Two, Brokers, Climate Change, Compliance, Consumer Duty, Digital, Enterprise Risk Management, Environmental Social and Governance, Fair value, FCA, Governance, HR, Insurers, IT, Lloyd's, Multi Occupancy Buildings Insurance, Operational Resilience, Operations, Pricing, Product Governance, Prudential Regulation Authority, Risk, Senior Managers and Certification Regime, 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. You can download your copy of Horizons here. This edition covers: Introduction The Longer-term Horizon Q1 2025...
by Claire King | Sep 8, 2023 | Enterprise Risk Management, Governance, Insurers, Risk
Financial risk is an inherent element of the insurance market and one our industry generally feels confident managing. But the emerging set of facts that surround InsurTech disruptor Vesttoo remind us all that we must remain vigilant to the risks we are exposing our...
by Kenneth Underhill | Apr 14, 2022 | Compliance, Governance, Lloyd's, Operations, Risk
The adoption of Lloyd’s new principles-based approach to market oversight is now well underway. Managing Agents should be well advanced with their self-assessment work for individual syndicates, ahead of the deadline of 29th April for the submission of completed...
by Kenneth Underhill | May 26, 2021 | FCA, Governance, Kenneth Underhill, Operational Resilience, Prudential Regulation Authority, Webinars
Watch the recording as Kenneth Underhill looks at the definitions of ‘Impact Tolerances’ and explores how firms should approach setting these across a multitude of scenarios aligned to their Important Business Services. You can download a copy of the slides here....
