Senior compliance, legal, and regulatory professionals gathered for a two-day European Compliance and Legal Conference in London to debate where supervision, enforcement, and technology are heading.
This was held by the Association of Financial Markets in Europe (AFME), an organisation that represents 150 leading global and European banks playing an important role in the European financial ecosystem.
Our FinregE team was on hand to showcase our end-to-end regulatory compliance capabilities. The days were filled with thought-provoking talks and panels, delicious food, and networking drinks.
If you missed it, here are five takeaways that stuck with us:
1. The evolution of the FCA
Therese Chambers, Executive Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), set a clear direction: the regulator is becoming smarter and more data-driven. Expect more use of analytics and AI to improve enforcement efficiency and reduce time-to-action.
How FinregE is helping the FCA
We collaborated with the UK’s regulator to transform, host, and redesign the FCA Handbook, improving how regulation is accessed, understood, and applied.
Aligned with the FCA’s five-year strategy to become a more agile, data-driven regulator, the new Handbook delivers powerful new capabilities, including:
- Enhanced search: Find exactly what you need with advanced, intelligent search and strong wildcard functionality.
- Version comparison: Instantly compare historical and current rule versions to see what’s been added, changed, or removed.
- Integrated taxonomy: Explore interconnected rules, guidance, and glossary definitions.
- Track changes in rules: Stay informed of regulatory updates with tracked changes.
- Create custom handbooks: Use the new user area to build a personalised version of the Handbook tailored to your needs.
- Built-in feedback: Contribute to the platform’s ongoing evolution through the integrated feedback feature.
2. How AI can improve the compliance function
A panel discussion led by Heads of Compliance surfaced the usual tensions of rising risks, finite budgets, and current trends.
They see a real AI upside, from fewer manual reviews, cleaner horizon scanning, and better case triage; however, ROI often feels too slow, in part due to siloed data and unclear accountability across risk, compliance, and business teams.
How FinregE helps: We break silos by linking rules → obligations → policies → controls → issues in one system, so AI output lands directly in workflows and MI, not another orphaned dashboard.
3. Key enforcement and regulatory trends in the US and UK
The panellists compared enforcement trends between the US and UK, labelling that in the US, enforcement and deregulation are the “talk of the town”.
In the US, there is a lot of noise around enforcement posture and deregulation, with shifting priorities across regulatory agencies.
Regardless of headlines, regulators and governments are still responsible for protecting the integrity of markets; therefore, there is continued focus on AML, fraud, sanctions, and cyber.
Whereas in the UK, there is a continued push for cooperative supervision and practical guidance (no more name and shame, more market-watch style). Financial crime remains top-tier, with an emphasis on systems and controls that actually work.
4. Crypto
Both sides of the Atlantic are still tightening definitions and supervisory expectations. Direction of travel is clearer in some US areas; the UK is coordinating closely across authorities, but firms still want crisper “what good looks like.”
FinregE covers every regulation from AML, fraud, sanctions, cyber, ESG, and more. Get in touch to ensure confident compliance every time.
5. Development of AMLA for AML
The mood in the room was hopeful but grounded. Everyone agrees the EU needs a more joined-up approach to financial crime.
That’s what THE Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) is meant to deliver: a single rulebook, more consistent supervision, and clearer accountability across borders.
Why FinregE
Choose FinregE to turn sprawling rules into a living, mapped handbook—linking obligations to policies, controls, tests, and MI you can defend.
We deliver measurable ROI fast: fewer silos, faster decisions, and audit-ready evidence across every entity and jurisdiction.
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