FCA 2025-2030 Strategy: How Innovation and RegTech Can Transform Investment Firms
In March 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launched its five-year strategy for 2025–2030, setting out an ambitious vision to promote economic growth, encourage innovation, and simplify regulation across the UK’s financial services industry.
Why Compliance Can’t Afford to Ignore AI in 2025
AI isn’t some far-off future tech or hypothetical compliance headache. It’s already woven into the DNA of financial services. From automated KYC checks to behavioural analytics, AI is powering decisions, streamlining workflows, and quietly reshaping how risk is understood and managed.
The UK Snoopers Charter: A Silent Erosion of Privacy
When Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter exploded onto the scene in the late 2000s, we eagerly embraced social media, believing it to be a harmless space to share our lives. But, as with everything, there was a hidden cost: our privacy.
AMF Priorities for 2025: Key Challenges for Asset Management Companies
The AMF (Autorite des Marches Financiers) has recently published its supervisory priorities for 2025, highlighting several strategic areas to ensure compliance and resilience for financial players. This year, several themes will be central to AMF inspections, with heightened requirements and potential sanctions in case of non-compliance.
Why ROPA Alone Isn’t Enough Under GDPR: The Critical Role of Regular Compliance Monitoring
If you’re a small or medium-sized business navigating GDPR compliance, your starting point should always be the seven core GDPR principles. Each is crucial, but one underpins them all—the principle of accountability…
Top 5 GDPR Compliance Mistakes Businesses Make
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a critical data privacy law that affects any business in the world handling personal data of European Union (EU) residents
Online Training vs. Traditional Learning: Why Compliance Teams are Going Digital
Training is a critical component of compliance in financial services, ensuring employees remain up to date with ever-changing regulations. Traditionally, compliance training was conducted in-person, with seminars and workshops. However, the rise of online training, especially since COVID-19, has transformed how firms deliver compliance education.
Simplifying compliance thanks to RegTech
In this interview with Challenges, Manon Anglade, Director of Leo RegTech France, highlights the regulatory challenges and how our SaaS solution…
Leo RegTech Joins Prestigious 2025 RegTech100 List
Leo RegTech is proud to announce its inclusion in the 2025 RegTech100 ranking, a globally acclaimed list recognising the most innovative and disruptive companies in regulatory technology.
Navigating DORA: A New Era of Operational Resilience due by Jan 2025
As financial institutions have become dependent on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for daily operations, ensuring robust operational resilience has become a new area of regulatory focus.