Robust recordkeeping and comms monitoring essential says FCA

Study reveals picture of uneven compliance and continued breaches by senior staff.

A multi-firm review by the FCA into off-channel comms reveals ongoing breaches at firms across all staff grades.

The FCA study focused on the approach of firms to off-channel comms – those taking place outside of the monitored and record channels that a firm has permitted – with 11 wholesale

The data underpinning

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