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Article Internal audit survey 2024

A rapidly changing financial services landscape is compelling internal audit teams to expand beyond their traditional roles.

15 Apr 2025

Article Leveraging generative AI in model risk management

How to use generative AI and machine learning to enhance your model inventory.

Vivian Lagan

| 6 min read | 10 Apr 2025

Article Revised ISA (UK) 240 brings new challenges for auditors

Including the use of specialists to assess fraud during statutory audits and impacts on audit negligence litigation.

Jonathan Cook

| 8 min read | 10 Apr 2025

Article CBAM – not just another tariff

What businesses need to know about the UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.

8 min read | 09 Apr 2025

Article Top themes for building societies in 2025

Technology and culture are priorities for building societies this year. Find out everything they need to do to continue meeting members' needs.

Paul Willis

| 8 min read | 09 Apr 2025

Article Create a culture where digital innovation thrives

CFOs are in the perfect position to drive tech adoption and digital transformation across a business. Find out how to lead from the front on innovation.

08 Apr 2025

Article Solvent exit planning: Will you be ready by the deadline?

What firms need to do now to meet the 1 October deadline for new solvent exit planning requirements for non-systemic banks and building societies.

| 8 min read | 07 Apr 2025

Article BNPL: Regulation back in focus

Buy now pay later: What should lenders do now to prepare for regulation?

| 8 min read | 07 Apr 2025

Article The DMCC: How will it change behaviour?

Understand how the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act aims to reduce 'unfair commercial practices' and how firms can comply with it.

| 12 min read | 04 Apr 2025

Article African mining in 2025: Resource nationalism and global investment

While the African mining industry is a significant driver of economic growth, it faces considerable instability in 2025. The industry must navigate a complex landscape of fluctuating global commodity prices, unpredictable government policies, and various geopolitical and logistical challenges.

4 min read | 03 Apr 2025

Article Failed transformation project? You’re not alone

Transformation programmes bring unique challenges for the financial sector, with implications for operational resilience.

Neil Furnivall

| 8 min read | 03 Apr 2025

Article Are the UK’s opportunities in digital assets being eclipsed by the US?

Following the recent changes arising out of the presidential handover in the US, we look at whether the UK can navigate through the current shift of momentum to foster innovation and growth in digital assets in the longer term, and whether the UK is still well placed to be a leader in digital assets.

| 9 min read | 01 Apr 2025

Article Top themes for the capital markets sector

Our guide to current priorities for the sector covers trade controls, ESG, and AI among other challenges – we also explain how firms can manage them.

Paul Young

| 18 min read | 01 Apr 2025

Article Insurance outlook: Top themes and priorities for 2025

The insurance sector stands at the crossroads between wholesale transformation and uncertainty around the direction of tide for regulatory redress. Successfully leveraging data in the road to greater digitalisation will be a key differentiator.