On 4 February 2026, legislation was passed in Parliament which brings cryptoassets within scope of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, and subject to regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority, from October 2027. In this 30-minute session, we will explore: ➤The timeline that the FCA has set out for firms needing to be authorised. ➤The regulatory perimeter that brings […]

In 2026, the cost of maintaining an in-house KYC and AML operation has reached an all-time high. Between the 70% talent shortage affecting the fintech sector and the rising technical debt of legacy monitoring systems, firms are struggling to balance regulatory rigour with commercial viability. In this 30-minute session, we examine how transitioning to an industrialised Managed […]

By mid-2026, compliance has evolved beyond AML; it is now inextricably linked to tax transparency. With the global rollout of the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) and the EU’s DAC8, your KYC data has become a critical tax reporting tool. For the first time, CASPs are required to automatically report user transaction data to tax authorities. In this […]

If you think UAE AML compliance is still a "tick-box" exercise of collecting passports and filing annual reports, you are misjudging the 2026 regulatory landscape. Following recent legislative overhauls and heightened international scrutiny, supervisors from the Central Bank, DFSA, FSRA and VARA have radically shifted their focus. They are no longer checking if you have […]

The regulatory safety net for executives in the UAE has officially vanished; with the enforcement mandates of 2026 and stringent legislative overhauls, supervisors like the Central Bank, DFSA, FSRA and VARA are actively bypassing corporate structures to hold individual executives personally and criminally accountable for corporate compliance failures. In this high-stakes, 45-minute briefing, Complyport’s senior advisory team […]

With the FCA transitioning from Consumer Duty implementation to active enforcement in 2026, the fair treatment of vulnerable customers has become a primary target for regulatory intervention. Supervisors are moving past high-level policies to audit the data loops, system flags and front-line interactions that prove whether your firm is actively preventing foreseeable harm. In this […]

A regulatory inspection in 2026 is no longer a standard document review, it is an aggressive, tech-driven stress test of your operational reality. Supervisors from the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) and the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) have significantly stepped up on-site interventions, moving past written policies to actively audit system algorithms, test staff readiness […]

Corporate fraud risks are evolving rapidly, with new regulatory requirements, advancing technology and increasing cross-border complexity.

With UAE supervisors now issuing corporate penalties of up to AED 100 million under tightened financial crime regimes, traditional "off-the-shelf" compliance frameworks are actively failing on-site inspections. Most local systems collapse under modern scrutiny because they rely on static templates rather than addressing the 2026 legal realities of "inferred knowledge" and strict virtual asset tracking.

On 30 September 2026 the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) finally opens its FSMA authorisations gateway for cryptoasset applications. The era of light-touch Money Laundering Regulations (MLR) oversight is officially ending. To operate legally past October 2027, every exchange, custodian, intermediary and stablecoin issuer serving UK clients must secure full FCA authorisation or Variation of Permission (VoP).

As AI-generated deepfakes, synthetic identity fraud and sophisticated document fabrication surge across digital onboarding channels, UK regulated firms are learning a hard lesson: purely automated RegTech tools are no longer enough to satisfy FCA scrutiny. While software can process volume, it cannot replace the nuanced risk judgment and human oversight that supervisors now demand under SYSC 8 and SM&CR rules.

With the regulator taking a far more assertive stance on safeguarding, operational resilience and financial crime controls, this session offers a confidential, peer-to-peer forum to benchmark your strategy and controls against regulatory expectations.