systems and controls,
FCA,
breach management,
complaints,
issues,
insurance,
FOS,
scam
The FCA’s Sarah Pritchard (Executive Director, Markets), recently delivered a speech announcing the FCA’s intention to undertake a review of the investment advice rules. Whilst the industry might welcome this review, how does this relate to the FOS? The FOS published...
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governance,
third parties,
oversight,
breach management,
risk management,
CASS,
client assets,
audit trail,
outsourcing,
transfer agents,
AIFs,
UCITS Funds,
depositaires
Prior to AIFMD and UCITS V, transfer agents (TAs) were unknown, however the need for greater transparency and trust has raised their profile. Transfer agents play an important role in financial services. They fulfil a number of functions such as maintaining and...
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governance,
culture,
breach management,
risk management,
monitoring,
issues,
TCF
Strategies for Establishing Risk Ownership in Your Firm One of the fundamental obligations applicable to all regulated firms is the need to implement appropriate processes to manage risks. But how do we encourage our staff to take responsibility and raise issues...
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third parties,
culture,
breach management,
risk management,
issues,
data sharing
A firm’s operational error log can provide a great deal of information about its compliance culture. Consider the following: Is it always the same individuals recording all the issues? Has the log remained untouched for several months? Are the identified issues...
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governance,
third parties,
accountability,
assessments,
corporate governance,
oversight,
breach management,
operational resilience,
monitoring,
SM&CR,
data sharing
This was the view of the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) back in 2015 when the PSR was still relatively new. Six years later and it’s fair to say that payments systems are even more critical today. It’s a message echoed by the Bank of England (BoE) and evidenced by the...
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FCA,
breach management,
CASS,
client assets,
audit trail
With the unprecedented levels of support coming from government to numerous business sectors to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19, Senior Managers at CASS firms could have been forgiven for looking eagerly to the FCA’s responses last month about COVID-related...
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