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Decoding the FCA’s Safeguarding reforms: Practical steps for payments and E-money firms

The Payments Association

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently outlined significant changes to the safeguarding regime for payments and e-money firms in its consultation paper CP24/20. Central to these changes are new statutory trust requirements, more prescriptive record-keeping, reconciliation standards, and the mandate for external safeguarding audits.

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Top regulatory priorities for the payments sector

The Payments Association

Safeguarding customer funds The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed significant changes to the safeguarding regime for payments and e-money firms. Key actions for firms Implement robust internal processes : Firms must establish (or bolster) comprehensive internal processes to comply with the new safeguarding requirements.

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UK Financial Conduct Authority plans to reform safeguarding rules for e-money and payment institutions

The Payments Association

On 25 September 2024, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its long-awaited Consultation Paper (CP24/20) setting out proposed changes to the safeguarding rules applicable to electronic money institutions (EMIs) and payment institutions (PIs) (together, payments firms). What does this mean for Payments firms?

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Citigroup Fined $56M In UK For Regulatory Reporting Miss

PYMNTS

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the supervisory arm of the Bank of England (BoE), has fined Citigroup a record-breaking $56.3 million for not completing accurate returns between 2014 and 2018, according to a report by Reuters.

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Switzerland’s Path to Green Digital Finance Leadership by 2030

Fintech News

Committed and competent entrepreneurs are just as much needed as progressive, mission-driven corporates, and authorities that provide a secure and innovation-friendly framework. Presently only targeting large firms, compulsory reporting requirements will increasingly include a larger set of firms.

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How payment firms can prepare for the FCA’s proposed safeguarding regime

The Payments Association

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) proposed reforms to strengthen consumer fund safeguarding in the payments and e-money sectors. Firms must prepare for these changes by improving their internal processes, conducting audits, and adapting to new compliance requirements to ensure seamless implementation of the FCA’s reforms.

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Vertex: Reclaiming Control in the Continued Adoption of CTCs

The Fintech Times

With businesses of all shapes and sizes digitalising in order to enable and enhance trade on a domestic and international scale, tax authorities have done the same. As a result of businesses digitalising in order to enable and enhance trade on a domestic and international scale, tax authorities have done the same. The result?