Can the FCA Handbook API help firms demonstrate compliance?
The FCA Handbook API could help firms connect machine-readable regulatory requirements with monitoring, assurance activity and evidence from real customer interactions.
The FCA Handbook API could help firms connect machine-readable regulatory requirements with monitoring, assurance activity and evidence from real customer interactions.
The FCA’s CP26/28 consultation is specific to AIFMs, but it illustrates wider regulatory themes around proportionate rules, governance information and oversight evidence.
As firms prepare another annual Consumer Duty board report, the focus should move from governance evidence to customer evidence that supports board challenge and outcome oversight.
As AI tools take on more of the analytical and administrative work, the human oversight question becomes more pressing — not less. We examine what responsible oversight looks like in…
Why regulated firms need predictive AI, not sampling alone, to review more conversations and evidence customer outcomes defensibly.
Ongoing advice is under closer FCA scrutiny, requiring firms to evidence service delivery, fair value, review triggers and client outcomes without unsustainable manual effort.
FCA priorities and Consumer Duty expectations are moving ongoing advice away from fixed processes towards evidence of judgement, value and client outcomes.
The FCA’s consumer understanding review reinforces that firms need demonstrable evidence of understanding, not only clearer communications or good intentions.
The FCA’s mortgage priorities place renewed emphasis on evidence, outcome testing, responsible lending and the ability to understand customer experience across the journey.
The FCA’s wholesale priorities require firms to evidence operational resilience, governance and technology controls in practice, not just maintain documented frameworks.