The FCA Handbook is changing! The need for firms to continue to work directly off a static copy of the FCA's UK financial regulations is coming to an end. These changes mean that the traditional approach of transposing regulations into spreadsheets or other documents to track actions and log compliance that has been time-consuming, inefficient and no longer fit for purpose - will also be come a thing of the past. Want to learn more:
What's the New Approach.
Since 2017 The FCA has been working with RegTech firms to improve the way in which UK Financial Regulations are distributed, recorded and tracked and both our speakers where heavily involved in this process.
View the webinar to hear Richard Pike, CEO, Governor Software and Alan Blanchard (formerly FCA), now Business Development (UK) at Apiax, discuss the background to the upcoming changes, the developments that have taken place, the reason for the changes and how UK Banks and Financial Firms compliance teams will benefit.
About the Speakers:
Alan Blanchard,
Business Development (UK), Apiax,
Alan joined the FCA in 2014 as Handbook Publisher, having spent 15 years in legal and regulatory publishing. Responsible for publishing the FCA’s Handbook, he launched a new Handbook website and introduced topic-based searching and navigation with the aim of making the content more user-focused. Before leaving the FCA, he worked on developing machine-executable rules and exploring different technologies to enhance the production and consumption of FCA regulations. At Apiax, Alan is responsible for the UK arm of the Swiss startup, bringing digital rules and the benefits of compliance by design to the UK market.
Richard Pike,
Founder and CEO,
Governor Software
Richard has extensive experience of working with financial institutions throughout the world, assisting companies in managing enterprise risk more effectively while addressing local regulatory guidelines and standards. As well as being the founder and CEO of Governor Software, Richard is currently Chairman of Citadel Securities (Ireland) Ltd and an Independent Non-Executive Director at permanenttsb bank, JPMorgan fund administration, JPMorgan hedge fund administration and Citadel Europe.
Prior to Governor Software, Richard has worked in various senior banking, insurance, credit and market risk roles at Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, ABN AMRO, Bain, COMIT Gruppe and Quay Financial Software. He has analysed, designed and managed the development of core treasury and enterprise risk management systems for large financial institutions, including UBS, Citibank, Schroders and Unicredito.
In 2009, Richard was recognised as a "Top 50" Face of Operational Risk by Op Risk & Compliance magazine and was a contributing author to two books on risk management. He is also a board member of the Governance, Risk and Compliance Technology Centre which focuses on research in the area of financial services governance, risk and compliance. Richard has also received the designation of ‘Certified Bank Director’ by the Institute of Banking.
We welcome you to download Governor Software's webinar on "Actionable Regulations - How UK Financial Firms can utilize the FCA Handbook is changing - what this will mean to you?". During this 30 minute webinar Richard Pike, CEO, Governor Software discusses how UK Financial Firms can now work directly with their own live, actionable view of the FCA Handbook. This new approach will enable compliance teams to easily see what needs to be done to be compliant, be aware of regulatory changes/updates as they happen and track actions and report their regulatory compliance on an ongoing basis.
About the speaker:
Richard Pike,
Founder and CEO,
Governor Software
Richard has extensive experience of working with financial institutions throughout the world, assisting companies in managing enterprise risk more efficiently while addressing local regulatory guidelines and standards. As well as being the founder and CEO of Governor Software, Richard is currently Chairman of Citadel Securities (Ireland) Ltd and an Independent Non-Executive Director at permanenttsb bank, JPMorgan fund administration, JPMorgan hedge fund administration and Citadel Europe.
Prior to Governor Software, Richard has worked in various senior banking, insurance, credit and market risk roles at Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, ABN AMRO, Bain, COMIT Gruppe and Quay Financial Software. He has analysed, designed and managed the development of core treasury and enterprise risk management systems for large financial institutions, including UBS, Citibank, Schroders and Unicredito.
In 2009, Richard was recognised as a "Top 50" Face of Operational Risk by Op Risk & Compliance magazine and was a contributing author to two books on risk management. He is also a board member of the Governance, Risk and Compliance Technology Centre which focuses on research in the area of financial services governance, risk and compliance. Richard has also received the designation of ‘Certified Bank Director’ by the Institute of Banking.
By linking business objectives to risks, communication and understanding is enhanced within a firm and an organisation has a better likelihood of achieving its objectives - the ultimate goal of risk management.
This guide sets out the common practise undertaken by risk teams, and then looks at the importance of linking business objectives to risk and how to accomplish this.
The guide also explores the resulting risk types and how they enhance communication between the business and the risk teams.
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Richard Pike recently presented in the Innovation in Risk Management Stream at Risk EMEA in London. During this well received presentation, Richard discussed the current risk oversight challlenges facing financial institutions prior to putting forward a new approach to Risk Oversight with a practical guide and case study.
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The process of compliance oversight is relatively simple in theory but financial institutions have historically made it extremely complex and unwieldy.
In order to root out the inefficiencies and make the process more effective a straightforward re-thinking of the practise is needed. This doesn’t mean pulling up the roots and starting again, but defining and mapping the oversight requirements and process as part of defining the core compliance requirements. In short ‘design in good oversight’.
This approach will support oversight becoming a standard item and the days of running around looking for old spreadsheets, presentations and emails should become a thing of the past.
Find out more by Downloading the Governor Software Compliance Oversight Guide today:
GRC 20/20 evaluated the features and capabilities of the Governor solution set. GRC20/20 found that it delivers an integrated and harmonized risk and performance management solution.
"Governor has an innovative approach to map and monitor the complex interrelationship of risks, objectives, regulations, and frameworks across the organization. It enables the organization to map roles and responsibilities to objectives and risk and track accountability. It enables 360°contextual awareness of risk and objectives with clear reporting to decision makers".
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