The FCA stated their approach will be to prioritise the most serious of breaches and act swiftly and assertively where it finds evidence of harm, or risk of harm to consumers, so it is imperative to act accordingly.
If your firm still needs to identify gaps in your Consumer Duty, then take ComplyPortal’s Consumer Duty Readiness Assessment where our regulatory consultants have prepared questions and scoring to guide you through assessing your readiness.
Our assessment is broken up into 7 scoring questionnaires covering the following:

Financial Crime is an increasing concern for all financial institutions, whether you are a large global organisation or a small regulated firm. Preventing and detecting Financial Crime is quickly evolving into one of the biggest challenges for companies, the impact of which extends well beyond financial losses, damage to reputation and brand, employee morale, business relations, as well as regulatory censure.

The FCA requires all authorised firms to have systems and controls in place to mitigate the risk that they might be used to commit financial crime and firms must prove that they have robust governance, effective risk procedures and adequate internal control mechanisms to manage their financial crime risk.

As a leading RegTech provider, ComplyPortal is pleased to announce our new Financial Crime Benchmarking Programme.

ComplyPortal’s Financial Crime Benchmarking Programme are a series of questionnaires designed by Compliance and Financial Crime experts, to help companies assess their current financial crime programme and identify any potential gaps that may need to be addressed, including: