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Conduct & Culture
Financial firmsʼ mistreatment of whistleblowers remains in FCA top 10
One in nine people who made a protected disclosure to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the first six...
Regulatory Oversight
AWS outage: Regulators are focusing on wrong issue, say payments experts
Payments leaders have questioned if the regulatorsʼ approach to overseeing Big Tech is the right way to ensure financial system...
Enforcement Actions
ESMA finds ‘discrepancies’ in national enforcement action
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has found “clear discrepancies” in enforcement actions among EU national competent authorities (NCAs),...
Financial Crime
Tech firms must be held to account for role in proliferating fraud, incidents surge 17%
The UK government should hold to account tech and social media companies that allow their platforms to be “exploited” by...
Regulatory Reform
EU blockchain projects aim to ‘future proofʼ financial infrastructure, boost competitiveness
The European Union’s blockchain projects aim to “future proof” financial infrastructure and boost competitiveness. The bloc seeks to reduce market...
Regulatory Oversight
FCA, ICO have multiple CMCs under enforcement investigations
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have multiple claims management companies (CMCs) under investigation by...
Financial Crime
Cifas aims to stamp out fraud at source with JustMe
Not-for-profit service Cifas is hoping to prevent fraud at its source with a new application verification app. At a demonstration...
Europe, Middle East, Africa
ESMA’s transaction reporting proposals are either too complicated or fail to deliver simplification
Industry officials have dubbed proposals by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) to simplify trade and transaction reporting as...
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