fscom podcasts: Recent Episodes
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fscom's fincrime specialists Evan McGookin and Richard Dunlop delve into the 2024 edition of fscom's Fincrime Compliance Report. The report presents a comprehensive analysis of the 71 anti-money laundering (AML) compliance audits conducted by fscom between July 2023 and June 2024.
fscom Senior Manager David Norton is joined by valid8Me Head of Risk and Compliance Michelle McGuire. The pair discuss DORA and explain what work remains to be done to ensure you are ready for 17 January 2025.
In the session, Senior Manager David Norton discussed what work remains to be done ahead of the implementation deadline.
With the FCA’s safeguarding consultation looming, fscom has teamed up with Grath to take you through everything you need to know so that your firm is prepared.
Listen to this episode where Associate Director and senior CASS expert Julie Tuffrey takes a deep dive into the necessary steps you should take when preparing for your CASS audit.
Listen to the recording of our 2024 UK Payments Regulatory Outlook event which took place in One Moorgate Place, London.
Listen to the recording of our in-person event, 2024 Ireland Payments Regulatory Outlook in Dublin.
Listen to this episode where, Richard Dunlop, fscom’s Manager in the Fincrime team, takes you through the highlights of the 2023 edition of fscom’s Fincrime Compliance Report.
Listen to this episode, where fscom Director, Alison Donnelly, and Senior Manager, Greg James, discuss the (many) pain points in safeguarding, the Central Bank of Ireland’s expectations and (looking into the future) the likely next steps once the mandated safeguarding audits have been reported upon.
In this fscom Podcast Episode, Director, Alison Donnelly, and Associate Director, Heather O’Gorman, as they provide detailed information on protecting customers’ funds and the latest on the FCA’s expectations of payment and e-money institutions.
Listen to this episode where, Senior Manager in the Investments Team, Julie Tuffrey takes a deep dive into the necessary steps you should take when preparing for your CASS audit.
Listen to this episode where Senior Manager, Will Finn and Senior Associate Brendan Dougan go through the basics of an IT Security Audit and what is required from you to complete this overall process.
Listen to this epsiode where fscom’s Associate Director, Fred McDowell delivers an insightful session on sanctions.
Leading experts discussed the key regulatory themes that will shape the investments industry for the year ahead including areas such as IFD/IFR, SEAR, operational resilience, cyber security and technology risk, AML/CTF, ESG and sustainable finance.
Listen to the recording of our Regulatory Outlook 2023 Event in One Moorgate Place in London. Our expert speakers discussed the key regulatory themes that will shape the payments industry for the year ahead including areas such as consumer duty, operational resilience, cyber security, wind-down planning, safeguarding and financial crime.
In the most recent EWPN Ireland in-person event, EWPN Ambassador and Director of fscom Alison Donnelly sat down for a fireside chat with Sarah Grace.
Many individuals go through trauma of different kinds, domestic violence, sexual violence, loss of loved ones, and mental illness. By sharing her story, Sarah Grace has used her harrowing experience to break the silence in order to help others. This is not only a story of survival and healing, but a story of empowerment and inspiration and reminding ourselves of the strength we all have and should use to help each other not only in our personal lives, but in our working lives as well.
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Sarah Grace is a solicitor and Bestselling author of 'Ash + Salt: From Survival to Empowerment after Sexual Assault'. Of French and Irish nationality, raised in Japan and France, she obtained an LLB degree in law and French law from University College London and Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas. After surviving a violent sexual assault in 2019 that turned her life upside-down, Sarah publicly called for changes to Ireland's criminal justice system for other sexual violence survivors.
Listen to this podcast episode, where fscom’s Associate Director in the Fincrime Team, Fred McDowell, provides detailed information on the importance of having up to date and proportionate transaction monitoring systems within your firm.
In this episode, Senior Manager, Will Finn and Head of the Cybersecurity Team, Nick Gumbley outline the process of preparing your organisation, its infrastructure and its processes to be compliant with the ISO 27001 standard and explain the benefits of having this accreditation to your firm.
Listen to the second in the series of AML in Crypto, fscom's crypto compliance expert, Chris Vaughan explores in detail how best to carry out financial crime risk assessments in the cryptoasset space
Listen to the Financial Promotions Podcast where Head of Investments at fscom, Azariah Nukajam will guide firms through the FCA’s new PS22/10 rules, to help firms promoting high-risk investments, to better understand what is required to ensure compliance.
Listen to fscom’s Head of Cyber Security, Nick Gumbley in a refresher session Podcast on Operational Resilience and how to prepare for the next 31 March 2025 deadline. Nick is joined by Senior Manager in the Cyber Risk Team, Will Finn and Senior Manager in the Payments Team, David Norton.
In this podcast episode, Alison Donnelly and David Norton, will discuss and take you through the process of how to develop a comprehensive wind-down plan/wind-up strategy
Listen to fscom's Associate Director of the Fincrime Team, Fred McDowell as he takes you through his first-hand experience and best practice guidance for a Know Your Client (KYC) and Customer Due Diligence (CDD) Remediation Project.
fscom’s Cybersecurity Associate Director, Nick Gumbley and Senior Manager Will Finn, discussed the 10 Steps to Building Cyber Resilience for your Financial Institution.
Listen to the EWPN Ireland Podcast, ‘Bringing the E, S & G to Payments in Ireland’. EWPN Irelands first in-person event since the pandemic for a panel discussion on how focus on ESG will impact the payments sector in Ireland and, perhaps more importantly, the positive impact the payments sector can have!
Listen to this podcast, where Philip Creed will take you through the process of what is required in preparing for a Section 166.
Listen to our podcast where fscom’s Head of Cyber Security, Nick Gumbley will be joined by Senior Manager, Will Finn to discuss the processes you should put in place to ensure you are protecting customer data in your organisation.
Listen to this podcast where fscom’s Director Alison Donnelly is joined by a panel of experts for a robust discussion on how payment and e-money institutions can realistically meet the FCA’s expectations for Vulnerable Customers and the new Consumer Duty principle.
Listent to our Podcast where fscom’s Associate Director in the Fincrime team, Fred McDowell as he goes through the Most Common AML Compliance Audit Findings.
Listen to our Podcast where, Associate Director in the Fincrime team, Fred McDowell will guide you on how to prepare for your AML Compliance Audit.
Senior Compliance Associate of the fincrime team, Chris Vaughan delivered a comprehensive session on cryptoassets for AML/CTF professionals.
Listen to this podcast, Alison Donnelly is joined by Colin Sloan and Paul Geerts in a webinar on everything you need to know about drafting a winddown plan.
In this webinar, our leading experts, Jamie Cooke, Alison Donnelly, Philip Creed, Nick Gumbley and Russell Burke discussed the key regulatory themes...
Our leading experts, Jamie Cooke, Alison Donnelly, Philip Creed, and Nick Gumbley discussed what the key regulatory themes that will shape the financial services industry……
AFEP’s Liz Allison asks fscom’s Associate Director, Nick Gumbley, and Senior Managers, Nick Wright and David Norton for the final checklist.
In this session, Fred McDowell, fscom’s Senior Manager of Financial Crime, will provide insight as to how a firm can ensure that their AML & CTF Whole Firm Risk Assessment is proportionate, and captures the firm’s AML & CTF risks.
In this session, Fred McDowell, fscom’s Senior Manager of Financial Crime, will provide insight as to how a firm can ensure that their AML & CTF Whole Firm Risk Assessment is proportionate, and captures the firm’s AML & CTF risks.
In this session, fscom Senior Manager, Fred McDowell, will discuss best practice guidance to help you with Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR).
This session is aimed at those who are responsible for the managing and achieving operational resilience at various levels within payment and e-money institutions, whether from an IT, operations or compliance background.
Listen to this free on demand podcast today, ‘The Annual MLRO Report’ Masterclass, hosted by fscom Senior Manager, Fred McDowell. In the podcast, based upon live AML Auditing experience we’ll share the insight of what elements make up a really valuable MLRO Report.
In this webinar, fscom Director Alison Donnelly discusses with Senior Managers, Dipesh Patel and Dane Pedro the key requirements of the authorisation application in the UK and the FCA’s expectations of applicants.
A panel of expert speakers discussed the UK's current and future stance on crypto regulation and its potential divergence with the EU/eurozone.
fscom's Alison Donnelly, the EWPN Ambassador for Ireland, is joined by Carol Rossborough of ESTHER.
fscom's Alison Donnelly, the EWPN Ambassador for Ireland, is joined by Elaine Deehan, Ireland Country Manager for Starling Bank and Pete Townsend, CEO and Founder of Norio Ventures and co-host of MoneyNeverSleeps, the popular weekly podcast.
fscom's Gregory James and Simon Whittaker help you to understand the requirements for firms on handling a payments or data incident.
fscom’s Philip Creed outlines what you should expect from your compliance auditor, and how to prepare accordingly.
fscom’s leading experts in the areas of payments, investments, financial crime and cyber security share their insights on the key regulatory themes from the recent Dear CEO letters and what if anything, has changed in terms of the FCA's focus for the rest of 2020.
fscom's Alison Donnelly and Colin Sloan host this panel discussion of Supercapital Ltd and take the opportunity to ask all your pressing questions to Kevin Goldfarb from Griffins Insolvency Practitioners, who was appointed a joint administrator in the case, and Alex Jay from Gowling WLG, who was their legal adviser.
fscom's Alison Donnelly examines the FCA's Dear CEO Letter issued on 9 July 2020 and its high level impact for payment and e-money institutions. Alison delves deeper into its safeguarding expectations and how the FCA expects companies to manage their prudential risks.
fscom's experts examine the obligations and requirements within the Payment Services Regulations 2018 (PSRs) and the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 (EMRs). They will also explain what The FCA expect in relation to safeguarding customer's funds in payment and e-money institutions.
fscom's Alison Donnelly is joined by Paul Geerts of Sia Parters to examine when a winddown plan is required and the steps involved in preparing a winddown plan.
fscom's Stephen Whittaker and Greg James outline the steps involved in preparing for an IT audit, including the aspects that will be assessed, the measures that should be carried out by staff and assessing and implementing the auditor's advice and recommendations.
fscom's Philip Creed identifies where the key areas of high risk are in payments, e-money institutions, challenger banks and crypto firms. Phil is also joined by fscom Senior Manager Fred McDowell for a Q&A session.
We discuss how EMD and PSD individuals working within e-money and payment institutions should navigate the Payment Services Regulations and the Electronic Money Regulations.
fscom Director Philip Creed addresses the current regulatory requirements for onboarding customers and maintaining adequate CDD files and developing and implementing best in class solutions for remediating your CDD files.
fscom's Stephen Whittaker and Greg James discuss managing and achieving operational resilience at various levels within payments and e-money institutions.