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The FCA's strategy for 2025-2030 is here

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April 14, 2025
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The FCA's strategy for 2025-2030 is here

With governments around the world looking to promote the growth of their economies, financial services regulators in the US, Europe and elsewhere are looking at ways to support growth by encouraging greater innovation, bolstering competitiveness and reducing “burdensome” regulation. Today, it was the FCA’s chance to let us know how it plans to address this challenge...
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Changes to Accounting Standards Offer Transformational Opportunities for Insurers, with Extended Time to Implement
February 22, 2021
Big changes are coming to how the insurance industry recognises and reports out financial performance. But the effects won’t be felt just in the accounting department. IFRS 17, Insurance Contracts, and its U.S. companion, accounting standard ASU 2018-12, Targeted Improvements to the Accounting for Long-Duration Contracts, are intended to add clarity for investors in the wake of events and financial improprieties…
Executive Perspective on Top Risks
February 19, 2021
2021 Top Risks- UK The continuing global challenges and potential existential threat posed by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Political divisiveness and polarisation. Social and economic unrest. Gridlock. Artificial intelligence (AI), automation and other rapidly developing digital technologies. Rapid shift to virtual, remote work environments. Changes in the geopolitical landscape. Shifting customer preferences and…
Chief Audit Executive Forum ‒ Perspectives on Internal Audit based on Shared Experiences - Session 2
November 13, 2020
The consequences of COVID–19 have changed the risk landscape. Internal audit functions are finding more than ever that they need to be closely aligned with, and responsive to, rapidly evolving business demands and priorities. Increasingly, they need to operate in more flexible and agile ways to remain relevant and support their organisation. Our Chief Audit Executive (CAE) Forum meets regularly online to exchange…
Security at the point of entry: The future of identity and access management
October 30, 2020
Identity is the now the place where security starts, but cloud technology has made this task a lot harder. In this article, we share the learnings from a recent webinar, which explored how access challenges are being overcome
Remote Working: Is the Cyber Risk Over-Hyped?
October 29, 2020
It’s the most significant workplace trend of 2020, but what impact d oes it have on the cyber security of a business? We speak to Protiviti’s technology team to understand the rapidly changing landscape of ‘working from anywhere’.
Chief Audit Executive Forum ‒ Perspectives on Internal Audit based on Shared Experiences - Session 1
October 6, 2020
Internal audit functions are finding more than ever that they need to be closely aligned with, and responsive to, rapidly evolving business demands and priorities. Increasingly, they need to operate in more flexible and agile ways to remain relevant and support their organisation. Our Chief Audit Executive (CAE) Forum meets regularly online to exchange ideas about how to manage the audit process through and beyond…
Chief Audit Executive Forum ‒ Perspectives on Internal Audit based on Shared Experiences
August 25, 2020
The consequences of COVID–19 have changed the risk landscape. Internal audit functions need to be closely aligned with, and responsive to, rapidly evolving business demands and priorities more now than ever before. Increasingly, they need to operate in more flexible and agile ways to remain relevant and support their organisation to accomplish its objectives. Our virtual Chief Audit Executive (CAE) Forum meets…
CASS in the Regulatory Spotlight
June 10, 2020
Small and medium size firms face greater regulatory scrutiny of their client asset arrangements as COVID-19 causes the economy to slow. Firms need to prepare now. The Client Assets Sourcebook (CASS) rules are designed to protect the cash and assets of clients from the potential insolvency of the financial institution (banks, custodian, investment bank, brokers or insurer) that hold them. The principle of…
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