Compliance Monitoring / Audit
Check and Demonstrate Your Firm's Compliance Against Each Monitoring Requirement:
Regulatory Business Plan Validation: Confirm the RBP outlines activities, risks, management, and future plans, with guidance explaining why this provides a strategic roadmap, aligns with FCA expectations, and enables proactive risk mitigation.
Business Continuity Plan Assurance: Evidence that your BCP is current, tested, and meets regulatory continuity mandates.
Threshold Conditions Compliance: Document UK-based head office with effective supervision and access, highlighting why this ensures FCA oversight, facilitates information sharing, and upholds authorisation criteria.
Leadership Qualification Check: Confirm directors and managers are fit, proper, qualified, and competent, explaining why vetted personnel reduce governance failures, align with SMCR, and demonstrate accountability to regulators.
Financial Resources Adequacy: Verify sufficient reserves for obligations and downturns, underscoring why prudent standards prevent insolvency risks, comply with capital rules, and evidence financial soundness.
Breach Procedures Implementation: Document root cause analysis, retained forms for 6 years, and timely FCA/ICO notifications, with insights on why structured responses contain incidents, enable learning, and fulfil reporting duties.
Conduct Rule Breach Reporting: Confirm zero-breach annual returns to FCA, including rationale on why transparent logging upholds staff integrity, supports cultural audits, and avoids enforcement actions.
Audit Policy and Plan Support: Verify that plans are maintained with documented audits, gap analysis, and remediation. This process explains why these efforts drive continuous improvement, identify weaknesses, and align with SYSC monitoring obligations.
Findings Escalation and Follow-Up: Document recorded assessments, reports to senior management, and actions, highlighting why escalation ensures oversight, timely resolutions, and defensible compliance histories.
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