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Following the Rules — 100 episodes

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Special episode: How to future-proof communications compliance in the age of AI with Smarsh's Kim Crawford Goodman

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Former regulator and JP Morgan regulatory affairs head Sally Dewar outlines how to manage compliance risk, get individual accountability right and build a simpler regulatory regime

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How to prepare your firm for UK crypto authorisation with the Financial Conduct Authority's Dominic Cashman

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DFSA’s Mark Steward on rethinking AI regulation, repricing conflict in the Middle East and safeguarding Dubai’s growth

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How to build better regulators with former Bank of England and FCA executives Lyndon Nelson and Gavin Stewart

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Special episode: How to unlock AI innovation without losing control with Smarsh's Goutam Nadella

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How to rewire UK financial regulation for growth with the PRA's David Bailey, FCA's Kate Collyer, former City minister John Glen, shadow City minister Mark Garnier and New Financial's Max Bierbaum

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Nomura's Chris Barlow on taking politics out of regulation, preparing compliance for the future and building the right culture

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How to ensure your insurance reflects your risk profile with Willis’ Claire Nightingale, Paul Search and Andrew Hill

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How to use training to reduce toxic workplace behaviour

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How to succeed as a Chief Compliance Officer in today’s markets with compliance and risk strategists Natalie McManus-Barnett and Jennifer Geary

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Former Goldman’s compliance exec Mark Taylor on fixing accountability in banking, and why banks still get the basics wrong

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Special episode: How to modernise voice surveillance for today’s markets with Smarsh's Eric Wiggins and Shaun Hurst

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Former insider trader Tom Hardin on the blind spots in finance’s fight against market abuse

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FCA deputy CEO Sarah Pritchard on the regulator's to-do list as it navigate new rules, new risks and "uncertain" times

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How to handle non-financial misconduct without damaging organisational culture, with former Standard Chartered surveillance chief Emily Wright and conduct risk consultant Emma Parry

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Special episode: How to modernise trader voice technology to better meet today's regulatory demands with Symphony's Ben Chrnelich and Antoine Stephen

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FRC CEO Richard Moriarty on cutting red tape, calling time on “dumb” compliance checklists and futureproofing the accounting watchdog without the legislative powers he was promised

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Special episode: How to prepare for the next wave of crypto regulation

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Market Structure Partners' Niki Beattie on why, and how, we need to rethink how markets work

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Special episode: How to navigate a dawn raid with the SFO's Emma Isaac and Simmons & Simmons' Camilla de Silva

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Graham Kent, Deutsche Bank's Group Chief Compliance Officer, on the compliance challenges shaping the industry’s future

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Special episode: How to cut red tape for financial leaders while raising conduct standards with Penny Miller and Andrea Finn of Simmons & Simmons

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Special episode: How to master compliant voice surveillance in financial services with Smarsh’s Ryan Kahan

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Special episode: How to future proof your business with Charlotte Stalin and Sarah James of Simmons & Simmons

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FCA’s Charlotte Clark on the firms ‘over-interpreting’ Consumer Duty, how the watchdog plans to help City firms navigate compliance, and its role in supporting firms through rapid AI adoption

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Special episode: How to track non-financial misconduct within your business with Smarsh's Shaun Hurst and former Standard Chartered surveillance chief Emily Wright

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Mark Watson, SVB’s former management governance head, on the crisis policymakers, regulators, and financial institutions are sleepwalking into and how to avoid it

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FMSB CEO Myles McGuinness on his plans to help the City tackle non-financial misconduct, and bolstering the standard setters' future in an increasingly polarised world

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Jillien Flores of the Managed Funds Association on how rulemakers can best rethink overly-onerous regulations for alternative asset managers, and the "misguided" policies they should avoid

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Edwin Schooling Latter, ex-FCA regulator now Mizuho's UK compliance head, on the reforms that could unlock "big savings" and the lessons we missed from recent failures of major financial institutions

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ESMA chair Verena Ross on her to-do list for 2025, simplifying the EU financial rulebook, and life at the helm of the watchdog

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Capstone's Mathew Gilbert on navigating Trump 2.0, and the regulatory changes needed to drive "tangible" growth in the UK and EU

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Governance expert Vera Cherepanova on why ethics and compliance professionals need a more influential voice in the boardroom, and the obstacles standing in their way

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TP ICAP's Nik Bunney on rethinking surveillance at the world’s largest interdealer broker and what the City needs from the FCA on non-financial misconduct

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Melissa Gallagher, JP Morgan's EMEA head of compliance, on future-proofing the back office amidst technological and regulatory change

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Alan Houmann, Citigroup's former government affairs head in Emea, on navigating rising populism and what not to do in response to "disturbing" government policies

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London Stock Exchange CEO Julia Hoggett on the changes needed to boost the City and its capital markets

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Special episode: Smarsh's Kim Crawford Goodman and CallCabinet's Ryan Kahan on the regulatory trends set to shape communications surveillance in 2025

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FCA CEO Nikhil Rathi on his to-do list for 2025, the regulator's future, and life at the helm of the City watchdog

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IA's Chris Cummings calls on lawmakers and regulators to agree a 'common vision' with the investment management sector and outlines the rules that must be cut in the drive to boost UK growth

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Behavioural risk experts Dr. Wieke Scholten and David Grosse outline where the banking sector and its regulators are going wrong in their approach to managing their cultural concerns

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UK Finance's David Postings on what should follow the government's drive to bolster the City's growth and competitiveness, and why it's time for Meta to step up its efforts to combat fraud

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Special episode: Smarsh's Shaun Hurst and Paul Taylor on the mistakes finance bosses are making in their efforts to better track non-financial misconduct within their workforce, and how to avoid them

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Natixis' Britt Johnston and portfolio NED Tina Mavraki on the common mistakes finance bosses make when addressing conduct failings, and how regulators can stop cultural 'window dressing'

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Former Standard Chartered global surveillance chief Emily Wright on banks' surveillance blind spots and how best to monitor them

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Special episode: Smarsh's Brandon Carl on the technology, regulatory challenges and industry trends shaping the future of communications surveillance

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Conor Sewell, former Treasury advisor now Forefront Advisers director, outlines what City bosses and their regulators should expect under Labour

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PRA CEO Sam Woods on life at the helm of the UK's top finance regulator and his regulatory priorities for 2024 and beyond

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Former FCA CRO Gavin Stewart on the compliance risks that City watchdogs may have missed, and how UK regulation and regulatory operations should be improved

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Special episode: Symphony's Ben Chrnelich maps out the future challenges and trends in communications surveillance

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Hanbury Strategy's Sander Schol on the likely future for the City and its regulators under a Labour government and how a new approach to UK-EU relations could benefit financial services

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Federated Hermes' Saker Nusseibeh on the need for less political ambivalence towards the City, and how fund managers and regulators could rethink their approach to ESG

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Former FCA chair Charles Randell, Latham & Watkins' Mark Austin, QCA's Linda Main and Baroness Bowles on what lawmakers, regulators and City execs need to do to help London's capital markets thrive

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Schroders' Jamie Ovenden, Julius Baer's Sarah Gadd, Slaughter and May's Jan Putnis and Turing fellow Professor Carsten Maple on how the City and its watchdogs can responsibly harness GenAI's potential

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FRC CEO Richard Moriarty on the highs and lows of his role and his plans to make the accounting watchdog "more strategic"

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LGIM's Sonja Laud on boosting London's IPO market, navigating Trump 2.0 and being 'the only woman in the room'

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Special episode: Global Relay's Alex Viall on the compliance tool helping finance bosses to better police their employees' use of unmonitored communications channels

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Government affairs guru Lisa Rabbe on what to expect from Trump 2.0, and how lawmakers and finance workers can best navigate 2024's mega election year and the AI technological revolution

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Special episode: Global Relay's Rob Mason outlines how finance bosses and their regulators are preparing for an expected clampdown on employees’ social media use

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Halsey Keetch's Alex Keetch outlines how finance bosses and those running their control functions can best navigate opportunities and challenges in today's job market

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Special episode: Global Relay's Jennie Clarke on the surveillance blind spots that could lead to compliance blow-ups at global finance firms

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Special episode: Smarsh’s Shaun Hurst on the compliance challenges ahead for those monitoring finance employees’ communications

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Tracey McDermott, former FCA boss and Standard Chartered's compliance chief, on UK regulators' diversity and inclusion push and how AI is changing the role of compliance

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Political lobbyist Jon McLeod on a Labour government’s regulatory priorities for financial services and the City reforms the current government should avoid.

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Citi UK CEO Tiina Lee, Nationwide CEO Debbie Crosbie and Howden CAP’s executive chair Mary O’Connor outline how finance companies can best set, monitor and promote their purpose as an organisation

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StepChange’s Peter Tutton on the changes that UK lawmakers, regulators and finance bosses should implement to help the country better navigate the cost-of-living crisis

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John Howells, CEO of LINK, outlines how lawmakers and regulators can best prepare the UK for a move to a digital economy

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Activist Mark Bishop outlines why a more consumer-led approach to UK regulation would benefit financial services workers

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Special episode: Smarsh’s Tom Padgett maps out how finance bosses, compliance professionals and regulators can best navigate the new world of AI

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Rachel Kent, government adviser and Hogan Lovells partner, calls on City executives to do more to help lawmakers in their efforts to future-proof UK finance

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Investment banking veteran Craig Coben on the issues City regulators should prioritise to strengthen London as a financial centre

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Matthew Nunan, former FCA head of enforcement now Gibson Dunn partner, calls on the regulator and the SFO to start working better together

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Former FCA chair Charles Randell on the highs and lows of running the regulator and why he’s focusing now on calling for a government-led strategy to tackle financial exclusion

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UK Finance Academy’s Roger Miles and Slaughter and May’s Jan Putnis on navigating regulators’ myriad expectations on culture and the questions lawmakers need to answer on the City’s future

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Revealed: FCA bosses were the subject of 30 internal reports of bullying, harassment, racism and discrimination between 2020 and 2022. What’s next?

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Geopolitics guru Tina Fordham on the changes to come in global market dynamics and how finance execs should respond

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Galaxy Digital’s Alex Royle and Goodwin Procter’s Andrew Henderson on the opportunities lawmakers and regulators are missing in the crypto-asset sector

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Culture and ethics adviser Roger Steare on the anthropological tools that City bosses should use to spot bad behaviour amongst their workers

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Special episode: Clausematch’s Evgeny Likoded and LawtechUK’s Aleksandra Wawrzyszczuk discuss a new tool that could fundamentally reshape the way regulators and companies navigate changes to rules

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Financial Conduct Authority’s COO Emily Shepperd on preparing the regulator for its expanding remit, and the need for a “bit more understanding” about the FCA’s limits

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Special episode: Smarsh’s Goutam Nadella maps out how finance firms can best modernise their approach to tracking staff communications during a tough economy and beyond

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Convicted Libor rigger Tom Hayes on his plans for the future and what the City should learn from his case

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Rutherford’s Jonathan Skerrett on where finance’s compliance talent should look for new jobs and pay rises in 2023, and the mistakes bosses make when hiring in a tough job market

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Latham & Watkins’ Nicola Higgs and Credit Suisse’s Simon Welch outline how finance firms can best respond to fast-changing ESG rules and what bosses should do now to prep for greenwashing allegations

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Coinbase’s Tom Duff Gordon on responding to the collapse of FTX exchange, how the UK can best build a competitive crypto hub and the regulatory questions arising from a move to decentralised finance

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Financial Reporting Council’s Kate O’Neill on the case for speeding up the creation of the FRC’s replacement, and how to avoid over-complicating ESG requirements

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OBIE’s Charlotte Crosswell on moving the UK’s open banking initiative forward and her priorities as the first chair of the UK’s new Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology

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Fund industry veteran Philip Warland on the network of City spies that UK regulators must turn to now and why it’s ”constitutionally wrong” for watchdogs to oppose government call-in powers

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Xavier Rolet, the former London Stock Exchange Group CEO, on how the UK can save its global clearing hub

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Former regulator and criminal prosecutor Sasi-Kanth Mallela on the growing need for increasing the SFO’s budget and simplifying the FCA

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Lord Holmes, vice-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fintech, on how the next government should future-proof the City

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Compliance veteran Antony Whitehouse on the rising risk of a major financial scandal hitting the City and how to avoid it

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Howden CAP’s Mary O’Connor on improving regulation in UK finance and how City bosses should change their approach to gender diversity

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PwC’s Michael Huertas on the tools EU watchdogs are missing and how Europe’s national regulators are filling in the gaps

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Former City minister John Glen on the regulatory changes the UK really needs now and how he’d like to see his proposed Brexit reforms put to use

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Global Counsel’s Becca Park on why the Financial Conduct Authority needs to take a regulatory pause and rethink its industry levy

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Sidley Austin’s Leonard Ng on the regulatory change UK asset managers urgently need and the reforms set to keep hedge fund managers up at night

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Special episode: ComplyAdvantage’s Charlie Delingpole on the regulatory changes needed to stop the UK’s alienation of fintech execs

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Former regulator and compliance chief Peter Haines on fixing the FCA and managing political interference in UK regulation