The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced it will no longer be issuing and publishing portfolio letters from 30 April. Instead, these will be replaced with a small number of market reports. The market reports...more
Rebecca Jackson, Executive Director, Authorisations, Regulatory Technology, and International Supervision at the Prudential Regulation Authority ("PRA") has written to international banks on the PRA’s thematic supervision...more
Against a background of increasing reliance on models and scenario analysis to assess future risks, the UK’s bank regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”), has published a supervisory statement on “Model risk...more
The FCA has recently published its latest supervisory portfolio letter (dated 28 September 2021) and addressed to the Boards of Lloyd’s and London Market insurers (LLM insurers). The letter gives an updated overview of what...more
In December 2018, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) wrote to the boards of life insurance companies setting out the FCA’s view of the key risks of harm life insurance companies pose to their customers and the markets in...more
Financial Services Act 2021 receives Royal Assent - The Financial Services Bill 2019-21 has received Royal Assent. Among other things, the Financial Services Act 2021...more
The PRA’s supervisory statement on outsourcing arrangements and managing third party risk requires insurers to take action now, to ensure that outsourcing agreements which are currently being negotiated comply with the new...more
Credit unions: PRA 2020 annual assessment of category 5 credit unions - The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has updated its webpage on credit unions to publish letters sent to directors of category 5 credit...more
A Director of Enforcement at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out some of the key challenges the regulator expects in its new role as AML/CTF (anti-money laundering/counter terrorist financing) supervisor for...more