Colin Payne, Head of Innovation at the FCA reflects on the Singapore FinTech Festival during which the FCA and Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced an AI Partnership between the two regulators, and a report was published on ways to bridge the digital assets “adoption gap”. The publication is a product of joint work between the regulators (FCA and the MAS), and the buy-side trade associations of each country (IA and the Investment Management Association of Singapore). For mo...

Join the IA Talks Innovation podcast as Miranda, Director of Market Insight and Fund Sectors at the IA, unpacks the latest Investment Management Survey, revealing how the UK industry is strutting its stuff with record-breaking growth, a surge in overseas and retail clients, and bold new looks in tech like AI, tokenization, and active ETFs. Tune in for headline stats, predictions for 2025. Miranda also offers insights into changing investor demographics, the challenges of market volatility, an...

In the second part of our interview with Nike Trost, Interim Director Buy-Side at FCA, we discuss the chapter of CP25/28 that covers direct dealing, also known as Direct2Fund. We also hear from Michael McNeil and Jane Thornton, the industry leaders who helped to shape the IA's proposals for this new optional alternative operating model to help give the UK funds industry a new way of innovating customer delivery. For more see the FCA's proposals at https://www.fca.org.uk/publications/consultat...

IA Talks Innovation heads to Stratford to interview Nike Trost, Interim Director Buy-Side at FCA about their new paper on fund operational efficiency, covering fund tokenisation and Direct2Fund. In a two part discussion, this first episode covers the evolution of the regulatory environment for UK funds utilising distributed ledger technology, how firms can use public permissioned chains and stablecoins within the rules, and thinking ahead to how a DLT-operated funds industry might look in the...

The IA marks IOSCO's World Investor Week (WIW) with a discussion with retail markets specialist Reuben Overmark on the basics of investing, how to protect against scams and how tech, crypto and AI are shaping the modern investing experience. WIW is a global campaign promoted by the body for global regulators, IOSCO, to raise awareness about the importance of investor education and protection, and to highlight the various initiatives of securities regulators across the globe in these two criti...