MyComplianceOffice Blog

At the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis, the FCA released a statement, where the regulator has shown its concerns regarding companies’ capacity to fight against market abuse considering the context of new working conditions. Earlier, the FCA’s Executive Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight at the FCA, Mark Steward gave a speech on market integrity and how the regulator has been approaching and investigating market abuse cases.

MCO is committed to delivering the best product and services to our customers. Thanks to our team of professionals for putting in hard work every day to make our customers achieve their compliance goals. In this blog series, we would like to take the spotlight from MCO and its products and feature our people. At the end of the day, our people are the stars of this business, they make us great and lead our customers to success.

Over the last decade, many scandals in the financial services industry have shined a light on the importance of employee conduct and exposed misconduct as a major factor in these scandals. Since then, many financial institutions have being working to boost their risk and compliance efforts. 

The FCA has stated that a primary focus in 2020 is to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on the markets and protect consumers. However, firms should not think that means that the regulator will adopt a light approach to current investigations and regulatory enforcement.

We are delighted to announce that our director Asia-Pacific, Kelly-Ann McHugh has joined the Risky Women Community and will be hosting a few podcasts on Risky Women Radio.