On 10 November 2016, the FCA published a speech given by Rob Gruppetta, head of the FCA’s financial crime department, on the FCA’s financial crime priorities. In the speech, Mr Gruppetta provides an overview of current FCA financial crime initiatives, including: Potential reforms to anti-money lending (AML) regulation. The FCA is raising various potential reforms […]

The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) recently published two documents which provide additional information about its current supervisory and enforcement approach and priorities in relation to financial crime issues. These are the FCA’s Anti-Money Laundering Annual Report 2012/13 (“AML Report”) and the first Financial Crime Newsletter since the transition to the FCA (“Newsletter”). This e-bulletin summarises […]