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With governments around the world looking to promote the growth of their economies, financial services regulators in the US, Europe and elsewhere are looking at ways to support growth by encouraging greater innovation, bolstering competitiveness and reducing “burdensome” regulation. Today, it was the FCA’s chance to let us know how it plans to address this challenge as it published its strategy for 2025 to 2030.

The FCA has set out four priority areas in its 2025-2030 Strategy. Here we explain the first one – becoming a “smarter regulator”, and what it could mean for regulated firms.

The International Standard on Sustainability Assurance, or ISSA 5000, developed by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) in late 2024, is widely expected to be the global benchmark for sustainability assurance, influencing the future of sustainability audits. As regulatory mandates for sustainability reporting increase, organisations seeking to enhance the credibility of their reports are…

While the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) that took effect in January 2023 is primarily disclosure-oriented, the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) is all about action.

On 14th November 2024, the Chancellor announced the Government’s National Payments Vision (NPV or Vision) in her Mansion House Speech. The Vision sets forth a strategic framework aimed at enhancing the UK's stature as a global leader in the payments sector, structured around three main pillars: innovation, security, and competition.

Businesses continue to transform. The pandemic drove an overall increase in digitalisation across advanced economies and companies now recognise this as a movement rather than a moment. Technological advancements, increasingly sophisticated insights from data, regulation and changes to ways of working and human sentiment are interrelated facets of modern life that require businesses to be ever adaptable.

Operational resilience – the ability for firms to prevent, adapt, respond to, recover and learn from operational disruptions – is a common concern for clients, leading to questions such as: Which management information should firms report against? Or, how can organisations advance testing beyond tabletop scenarios? While the answers often depend on specific contexts, leveraging available data across the business can…

The U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) is part of a suite of new online-safety and consumer-protection regulations aimed at safeguarding users from harmful content on digital platforms. Its implementation is planned in three phases from 2025 to 2026.

With nearly three decades at Europcar, Evelyn Tourish, UK Customer Experience Manager – like many others – has faced a few challenges and was instrumental in helping to create an industry-wide COVID guide during the pandemic. She couldn’t love her job more and her warm, infectious personality beams through. Martina Tagliavia from Protiviti’s iGROWW network delves deeper into Evelyn's professional journey.

From an international upbringing to aspirations of working for the UK Foreign Office, Rhianne Williams, Senior Business Development Manager at Protiviti UK, has had a varied and diverse career – with a recent highlight being invited to join the UK UN Women CSW68 conference as a delegate. She shares valuable lessons learned, her views on gender parity and deeply treasured advice from a personal mentor.