third parties,
FCA,
pensions,
oversight,
risk management,
audit trail,
data sharing,
pensiondashboards,
MaPS,
TPR
Whether you work in the pensions sector, or not, everyone needs to understand what Pension Dashboards are, and what it means for you personally. With the draft Pension Dashboard Regulations 2022 published earlier in 2022, we now see a large scale collaboration between...
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governance,
third parties,
accountability,
corporate governance,
pensions,
monitoring,
trusts,
audit trail,
data sharing
From the 1 September 2022, most trusts will need to be registered with HMRC. There are a few exceptions. This follows a 12-month transition period. What’s changing and why? Back in 2017, you may recall that the UK set up the Trust Registration Service (TRS) to fulfil...
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third parties,
assessments,
operational resilience,
audit trail,
data sharing,
cyber resilience
The FCA published a cyber resilience questionnaire cross sector report in 2018 and its findings are still relevant today. The cross sector report highlighted that the following points were top of the agenda for many firms: Concerns around cyber resilience Improving...
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third parties,
assessments,
audit,
CASS,
data sharing
Whilst it is not the regulator’s objective to prevent firms from failing, where a firm does fail, the aim is to manage this in an orderly manner. Hence the basic capital resources requirement for all regulated firms. The regulator aims to avoid disorderly failure,...
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governance,
culture,
corporate governance,
monitoring,
controls,
communication,
audit trail,
data sharing
How well can your firm demonstrate effective systems and controls? Corporate Governance isn’t just about who sits on your board and how often the board meets. It’s about the systems and controls as well as the standards set within a firm. It’s about ensuring that the...
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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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assessments,
monitoring,
audit trail,
data sharing
All regulated firms are obliged to conduct compliance monitoring. The compliance function is required to monitor and test compliance by performing sufficient and representative compliance testing. Then the results are reported up through the compliance reporting line...
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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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governance,
third parties,
oversight,
operational resilience,
data sharing,
outsourcing,
EBA
Both the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) require firms to identify and manage their risks. Over the years we’ve seen both regulators focus on outsourced and third party arrangements. Current efforts to build a more...
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