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The Financial Conduct Authority has published its Business Plan for 2024/25. Paul Staples explains what it means for firms and highlights the regulator’s key priorities for the coming year.

Cyber resilience is key for financial services - firms must strengthen capabilities and culture to reduce risk.

Solvent exit planning is moving up the regulatory agenda. Firms should start to prepare now.

The year ahead will be another challenging period, but the sector still needs to be prepare for new regulations.

Volatile interest rates, AI, and technology, regulation, and macroeconomic uncertainties are just some of the challenges the banking and capital markets will continue to face this year.

The insurance industry is undergoing a transformative journey. We assess the key themes, trends, and challenges in 2024.

The FCA has published an insight setting out examples of good and bad practice that it has observed in firms' implementation of the Consumer Duty.

Understand the upcoming changes to the solvency framework announced by the Prudential Regulation Authority.

The year ahead is set to bring both opportunities and reasons for caution to investment managers, with challenges spanning the uncertain impact of regulatory change, emerging technologies, and the long-running struggle with shrinking margins.

The key trends affecting investment management this year – and how firms can prepare.

Lessons for motor finance firms from the high-cost short term credit sector.

The suspension of guaranteed asset protection insurance may bring further scrutiny of products from the FCA

Could the ongoing Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) investigation into the motor finance industry could be as big as the PPI scandal?

The regulator is urging payments firms to adopt Confirmation of Payee (CoP) to prevent APP fraud. We look at how firms can protect their customers and reduce fraud.

Our survey shows the key priorities and challenges facing firms in their Basel 3.1 compliance journey.

Understanding regulatory expectations, including credibility and viability, are critical for banks to fail safely.