UK banks and the wider financial services sector in the UK are taking measures to protect their employees’ mental health, according to Mental Health First Aid England.

The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority has published detailed principles for banks to follow on managing their model risk.

The FCA has set out plans for a revival of the country’s equity capital markets post-Brexit. 

A professor of financial economics at Warwick Business School examines the pros and cons of ring-fencing banks and suggests a new method to more effectively protect people’s savings.

HSBC hosts Singapore fintech companies as part of UK Fintech Week. 

Crypto opportunities and greater UK-focused regulation lie ahead as the UK Financial Services and Markets Bill clears the last hurdles. 

Robust cloud-based payments systems are seen as a crucial way for incumbent banks to compete more effectively with fintech start-ups.

Now is an opportune time to consider introducing UK regulatory investigation time limits in order to achieve better fairness and proportionality.

With a multitude of open avenues for litigation, here are the key areas that banks should keep tabs on in the coming year.

The anti-fraud duty has gained recent prominence as upcoming legal challenges threaten to increase banks’ responsibilities in the context of increasingly sophisticated fraud.