Regulated Radio

Outages, data breaches, systems failures. What happens when the financial sector's normal functioning gets disrupted? In this episode, Scott Martin speaks to Rick Cudworth and Neil Bourke from Deloitte's Reputation, Crisis & Resilience team to find out what FS firms are doing to strengthen their operational resilience. Tune in now to understand how regulators are becoming more and more alert to the complexity of these risks and how they're proactively getting FS firms to be better prepared for them.

Key questions:

• What is operational resilience and why has it become such an important issue for the financial sector
• What are financial regulatory authorities saying financial sector firms need to do?
• What is an 'impact tolerance' and what is a 'business service' – and why does this matter?
• How can impact categories help firms understand the 'harm' to stakeholders they could cause if their services were suspended?
• What kind of scenarios should FS firms be thinking about to stress test their resilience capabilities?

This month, Valeria Gallo, FinTech expert in Deloitte's EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy (ECRS), joins us to cut through all the buzzwords and give us her views on how Open Banking, and eventually Open Finance, might actually change the financial services sector. Tune in now to hear the latest about what could be one of the most important regulatory trends driving customer-focused innovation in financial services. This is a show FinTech fans will not want to miss.

How resilient is the financial sector to cybercrime? In this episode, we're joined by Sir Rob Wainwright, Senior Partner at Deloitte and former head of Europol, who talks to us about how the merger of cyber risk and crime have created a whole new field of challenges for financial services firms. Tune in now to understand how the sector and its regulators can respond to this threat.

Money, as they say, never sleeps – and you'd certainly not want yours to. In this episode, we're looking at how UK regulators have been promoting transparency amongst asset managers as to the value they are offering to their investors. Scott Martin is joined by Andrew Bulley and Joy Kershaw and together they dive into the latest competitive trends in the investment fund sector. Tune in now to find out just how hard your money can work.

Key questions:

• Why has the UK Financial Conduct Authority increasingly scrutinised the state of competition in the investment fund sector?
• And what has the FCA asked asset managers to do to demonstrate the value their funds deliver?
• How will more transparency on value for money affect competition in an already busy marketplace?
• Do we expect EU regulators to follow the UK's lead and become more involved in promoting competition among investment funds?
• Is there an opportunity for asset managers to make the most of these new requirements?

At the start of the year, we looked at what was in store for 2019. We're only six months in and it's already been a year of twists and turns. From a darkening economic outlook, to really critical regulatory advances on the fastest emerging risks, there's been plenty to keep us on our toes. In our latest episode, we're welcoming back David Strachan, as he joins our host Scott Martin, for a mid-year review of the regulatory climate so far… tune in now!

Key questions:

• How are financial services firms handling the continued uncertainty around Brexit and what should they watch for next?
• How far are regulators likely to go in pushing financial firms to address risks arising from climate change?
• Are we seeing regulators make enough progress in dealing with the threat of cyber risk in financial markets?
• What are the highest impact developments that we expect to see in the second half of 2019?

As 'FinTech mania' rises, our latest episode looks at what regulators are doing to encourage more innovation, get ahead of potential risks, and how prepared FinTechs are to deal with the bigger regulatory hurdles they will face as they scale. Join our host Scott Martin, and our special guest Suchitra Nair, as they dig a little deeper into the future of FinTech. Tune in now!

In our latest episode, our host Scott Martin and Deloitte's Chief Economist, Ian Stewart, scan the horizon and look at the some of the top economic threats facing financial markets today. From the latest macroeconomic developments around the world, to the risks keeping central bankers and financial regulators up at night. Tune in to hear more!

In our latest episode we are diving into the deep-end and tackling all things cyber security. How much of a threat is cyber risk to global financial stability and what are regulators starting to do about it? Our host Scott Martin is joined by Stephen Bonner and Dave Clemente to dig into one of the hottest of all topics in the financial world right now. Listen in!

The London Interbank Offered Rate, more commonly known as LIBOR, is often referred to as the world's most important number. So, what do you do when the authorities say you can no longer use it? In our latest episode, our host, Scott Martin is joined by Ed Moorby and Sherine El-Sayed to explore how the global financial sector is doing so far in changing the way it prices almost all of its financial products. Tune in now!

Hello 2019, we're ready for you. In our second episode, our host, Scott Martin is joined by David Strachan and Andrew Bulley from our EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy to discuss what's on the financial regulatory agenda for the year ahead. From cyber to climate change, we explore some of the big risks and opportunities the financial industry will face in 2019. Let's get straight into it!