It is no surprise that in the FCA’s 2017/18 Business Plan, culture and governance in financial firms are listed as the number one priority for the regulator.As Andrew Bailey put it in a recent speech: ‘Cultural outcomes are the product of a wide range of contributory forces: the structure and effectiveness of management and governance, including the well-used phrase ‘the tone from the top’; and the incentives they create; the quality and effectiveness of risk management; and the willingness of people throughout the organisation to enthusiastically adopt and adhere to the tone from the top. That adherence is crucial: actions really do speak louder than words and are at the heart of how we judge the intent towards good outcomes and thus culture.’In this our 3rd Annual Culture and Conduct Forum for the Financial Services Industry, we analyse how firms can address the contributory forces that determine the make-up of their culture so that they can produce better outcomes for customers, investors, creditors, shareholders and to public authorities in respect of the public interest. The Forum will cover:
Attendance at this highly topical event will be invaluable for the senior management of all FCA regulated firms, including banks, asset managers and insurers. It will also be of particular interest to heads of compliance, heads of operations, heads of legal, heads of internal audit and heads of training and education, as well as members of the advisory community, such as lawyers and accountants.
Tuesday, November 7, 2017 8:15 AM - 5:15 PMGMT Time
Grange City Hotel8-14 Cooper's RowLondon EC3N 2BQUnited Kingdom+44 (0) 20 7863 3700