Compliance Insights Articles

The European Banking Authority (EBA) Outsourcing Guidelines come into force on 30 September 2019. The revised guidelines, which replace the 2006 Committee of...

The FCA’S 2019/20 business plan sets out upcoming regulatory changes over the next 10 months, as well as giving an indication of what is likely to be upcomin...

Clearly, vulnerability is becoming a central issue in society, as can be seen by the increase in the usage of the word over time. The days of keeping illness...

Last month, the Financial Conduct Authority published its 2019/20 business plan, setting out the regulator’s priorities for meeting its objectives: to protec...

In this article, we’ll take a look ahead at the upcoming regulatory changes over the next nine months of 2019. In the last two years, firms have dealt with s...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have published initial feedback and guidance in relation to Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) deals, which are defined as deals ...

As of the 10th December, insurance firms are now subject to the Senior Managers and Certification Regime. So as an insurance firm what do you need to be doi...

In July of this year, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a Discussion Paper on a potential ‘Duty of Care’, which some of the FCA’s stakeholders ...

The Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SM&CR) is due for implementation in solo-regulated firms on 9 December 2019. With 2019 just around the corner, fi...

With the commencement date looming, insurance firms should be well within the final stretch of their preparation for the new Senior Managers and Certificatio...

Insurance firms are gearing up for the implementation of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime on 10 December this year. The SM&CR will replace the re...

Following the Brady Review, commissioned in 2015 to examine the nature of issues in the claims management market, the government has announced that the Finan...

The FCA have now published the ‘near-final’ draft rules for the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR), which currently only applies to UK banks, b...

It’s never too late to take action on GDPR. As recently as March 2018, just 5% of EU companies believed they were compliant with all of the requirements. It ...

With just twenty-four days to go until GDPR is enforced in the UK, now is the time to review your compliance and ensure any last-minute amendments. It is nev...

The count-down to GDPR continues, with only a few weeks now before the implementation date. If you are an avid reader of our articles you will be aware, in m...

There have been plenty of articles about the risks and consequences of non-compliance, with most focusing on the maximum penalties, and a few suggesting that...

Out with the old and in with the new. The rules relating to Data Protection are about to see the most dramatic change in years, if not ever, with the soon-to...

The UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, published a Statement and Consultation paper setting out the review of its General Conditions of Entitlement at the...

One question I have been asked recently is “what should be in our GDPR compliant Data Protection Policy?” In fact, it’s something I have been asked more than...