MyComplianceOffice Blog

With the increased challenges for financial Control Rooms, global regulators continue to pressure firms concerning the flow of confidential information. To manage the flow on confidential information and implement an effective risk control, firms are expected to continue working on the modernization of regulatory, legal and compliance risk management programs. These modern programmes in addition to effective technology can ensure that material non-public information (MNPI) is only available to staff as and when required and does not leak to other parties.

Sweden’s financial supervisory authority is investigating Swedbank for suspected breaches of market-abuse regulations.

The most recent FCA  newsletter on market conduct and transaction reporting issues, Market Watch 65, covers how the inappropriate handling of information requirements can compromise market abuse investigations. In addition, the document highlights data quality issues found on transaction reporting under the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation.

The thought of an employee working from home and revealing company private information is a compliance nightmare and it deeply frights regulators. Working from home increased Compliance fears and created numerous challenges for firms. Compliance had to carefully think over the best way to monitor conflicts of interest, manage the risks around the identification, handling and disclosure of inside information because of the new circumstances.

Last week MCO participated in the Stockbrokers and Financial Advisers Annual Conference, a virtual event in 2020 due to COVID-19.

We set out to discuss how to manage emerging risks such as cyber security, social engineering and to deliver a successful business. The level of scrutiny as to how advice businesses manage these risks is increasing dramatically. How do you keep on top of the demands?