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Compliance Monitor

A year in compliance

So long, 2019. Adam Samuel reflects on themes of the past year in the financial services compliance space, as well as ongoing issues for the incipient decade.
Online Published Date:  05 February 2020

Cryptoassets: a complex regulatory challenge

Digital currencies and other cryptoassets present both potential benefits and enormous risks to financial systems and consumers. Regulators are under pressure to act fast. How will these issues be resolved? reports Neasa MacErlean.
Online Published Date:  05 February 2020

The early days of SMCR

How much of a change does the SMCR bring to solo-regulated firms? How have they performed thus far against the new challenges? And what needs to be done this year? Adam Jamieson and Daren Kemp consider these and other practical questions.
Online Published Date:  05 February 2020

Treating Customers Unfairly – the tracker funds with ‘enhanced’ fees

A change in management policy for two investment funds, which allowed retail customers to be over-charged for almost five years, has led to costly enforcement action against Henderson Investment Funds. Lessons should be learned from this failure of systems and controls in relation to the management, oversight and governance of such funds, reports Denis O’Connor.
Online Published Date:  05 February 2020

Draft Supervisory Statement de-fogs outsourcing rules

New regulatory proposals on outsourcing aim to enhance safety and resilience within financial services firms as well as foster more widespread adoption of cloud-based technologies. The Prudential Regulation Authority’s consultation provides welcome clarifications to the existing European guidelines, say Rachael Preston and Lucy Hadrill.
Online Published Date:  05 February 2020

A legal remedy for ‘push payment’ fraud victims?

Ina significant recent judgment, the Supreme Court has put it beyond doubt thatUK banks owe a duty of care to customers not to process payments where there arereasonable suspicions about their propriety. Chris Robinson exploreswhat this means for the increasingly common phenomenon of push payment fraud.
Online Published Date:  05 February 2020

Car finance broker’s online adverts banned

The Financial Conduct Authority has banned a number of online advertisements posted by Rix Motor Company Ltd, because information that is required under its rules was missing or unclear.The adverts on Rix’s Instagram account and three of its..
Online Published Date:  19 February 2020
Appeared in issue:  Vol 32 No 6 - 01 March 2020

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