Most UK financial firms measure only direct compliance spend, around 2.6% of operating costs. TheCityUK and PwC put the true burden above 13%. We break…
Your compliance officer resigns on Friday. Who files your FCA returns on Monday? For mid-sized investment firms, one in-house hire costs £90,000+ in year one…
outsourced compliance services Many UK financial firms drastically underestimate their regulatory overhead by looking only at direct compliance function expenditures, which typically average just 2.6%…
Most firms assume the risk in their Part 4A permission is being out of scope. In the firms we have reviewed it rarely is. The…
Sponsored Content & Link Policy Compliance Consultant — Making Compliance Work Version 1.0 · September 2026 · Next review: September 2027 The short answer, so…
Most regulated firms that hired a compliance consultant last year did not get burned by bad advice. They got burned by consultants who sold operational…
In the Financial Conduct Authority’s review of Year 2 Consumer Duty Board reports, a clear pattern emerged: having a vulnerable customer policy on file is…
Grading your own homework will no longer satisfy the regulator’s fair value requirements. If your firm’s latest Consumer Duty board report relies entirely on internal…
Why a Compliance Consultant? A full-time compliance manager now costs over £100,000 annually when factoring in base salary, employer National Insurance, and pension contributions. For…
The £28.9 million fine handed to Starling Bank in late 2024 was not the result of a missing document or a poorly formatted PDF. It…
