By Sara Haworth - Senior Consultant | 28/01/2025

2025 Consumer Duty Board Report – An Updated Guide

On 11 December 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued its findings of the review …

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FCA Supervisory surge and VREQs – unravelling fact from fiction

What does the data tell us about the FCA’s Supervisory work?   There seems to …

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‘Safeguarding’ a key FCA priority for the payments sector

On 3rd February 2025, the FCA issued a Dear CEO letter to firms that fall …

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Dear CEO: Our Custody and Fund Services Supervision Strategy Letter

In December 2024, the FCA issued a series of Dear CEO letters, including one titled …

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Dear CEO: A Letter to SIPP Operators

Portfolio letter: FCA’s expectations for SIPP Operators The FCA has issues a Dear CEO Letter …

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Operational Resilience – Lessons from the CrowdStrike Outage

It’s inevitable that there’s a lot of inter-reliance between firms, whether it’s for technology provision, …

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Square 4’s Top 10 Tips To Prepare Your Firm For Your Next CASS Audit

As we head into the autumn, many firms are working with their auditors to prepare …

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Selecting your CASS auditor – the devil is in the detail

For the first time in its history, the FCA has publicly censured an auditor for …

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Enhancing your Client Asset Sourcebook (CASS) controls

We’re now well into the third year of the FCA’s 2022-2025 strategy with supervisory work …

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