The FCA has shared examples of good practice and areas for improvement from the applications for authorisation or registration that it has seen. The focus is on how firms demonstrate in their ...

The Financial Conduct Authority is calling for third-party compliance consultants to set clearer boundaries with clients and ...

UK stablecoin rules 2026 create FCA compliance risks for payment firms. Safeguarding, authorisation, and regulatory gaps ...

The FCA has issued a lengthy consultation paper setting out its proposed new regime for ESG ratings providers (FCA CP 25/34). From June 29, 2028, any firm wishing to provide ESG ratings in the UK will ...

Investa, the UK's first zero-commission options trading app, has been granted direct authorisation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The approval sees Investa transition from an Appointed ...

The Financial Conduct Authority has appointed two directors of authorisations, alongside a new finance director to join this spring. The regulator has appointed Laura Dawes and Dominic Cashman to work ...

Multi-asset digital money platform Uphold has received authorisation from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to operate as a registered crypto asset firm in the UK. Uphold’s registration means ...

Sheree Howard stood in front of a packed room at the APCC Spring Conference 2026 and told financial firms what they probably didn't want to hear.

The cross-border payments platform secures FCA authorisation as it prepares to launch remittances, multi-currency accounts, and FX services for the ...

Sapia Partners will hand over nearly twenty million pounds. The firm agreed to pay £19,637,950 to WealthTek clients after the ...

In 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) (Bank of England (BoE)) (collectively the “regulators”) sought to engage with financial firms and other ...