Compliance Insights Articles

To help you plan your goals over the remaining months of 2026, we have pulled together an overview of the key regulatory updates expected over this year and 2027, the key dates for your diary. Date Regulator Initiative Action Autumn 2026 ICO Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 Final versions of updated guidance including guidance on the Right to Rectification and the Right to Restrict Processing. New tools to support firms in deciding which special category data condition for p

FCA Complaints Reporting Changes 2027: New Vulnerable Customer Reporting Requirements

The latest FCA regulatory update contains several important developments for compliance professionals, including changes to the Motor Finance Compensation Scheme, increased scrutiny of financial promotion approvals, new Skilled Person statistics and enforcement action by the ICO. In this monthly compliance update we summarise the key regulatory developments and explain what they mean for FCA regulated firms.

FCA Publishes Good and Poor Practice on Consumer Duty Products & Services Outcome The FCA has published yet another Good and Poor Practice paper in relation to the Consumer Duty, this time focusing on the Products and Services Outcome. This demonstrates the FCA’s commitment to communication and engagement with the industry providing valuable insight into what supervisory teams expect to see when assessing firms' product governance arrangements. The findings are based on a rev

Non-Financial Misconduct Guidance: What FCA Regulated Firms Need to Know Before September 2026

Artificial Intelligence is now a strategic issue for the financial regulator. Over the past decade, the question has quickly gone from ‘whether AI will affect financial services’ to how ‘should regulation evolve as AI becomes embedded into modern life’. The FCA’s work over the past two years demonstrates an important shift. Rather than creating an AI-specific rulebook, the regulator is building a supervisory framework that aims to enable innovation while keeping firms account