Banks are sitting on a trove of unexploited data for predicting consumer behaviour to meet new consumer protection standards.
The FCA’s crypto asset marketing rules are approaching their final state, but firms have been given a matter of months to comply.
The UK needs to focus on supporting companies in a range of diverse sectors.
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.
With AML compliance at the top of the FCA’s enforcement agenda for this year, we highlight important focus points for banks and other regulated firms operating in the UK.
In the race for ‘turbocharged’ economic growth, is the UK putting its reputation for gold-plated financial services rules, which kept risky behaviours in check, on the line?
The gilt market spiral in September, which created a material risk to UK financial stability, has brought defined benefit pension schemes under greater regulatory scrutiny.
A culture of late payments by bigger companies is leaving small businesses struggling to get by.
Amid a hastening surge of big tech firms into the financial services space, the question of regulatory reform is becoming ever more critical.
Layoffs are rising as an economic downturn looms. Employers must take care if they are to make their own redundancies.
An open letter addressed to the UK’s central bank offers a warning on – and solution to – the “finance-climate doom loop” threatening economic stability.