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Culture and Conduct: Understand the Foundations & Design High Impact Improvements

Enhance your understanding of Conduct & Culture!

£474.00

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The FCA regulates Conduct, but it doesn’t officially regulate Culture. However, there can be no doubt that both are firmly on the regulator’s agenda:

in 2026, work on culture and non-financial misconduct will mean the extension of rules about bullying and harassment to 37,000 firms, whilst the SMCR regime is revamped, and
the number of whistleblowing reports and allegations made to the FCA continues to increase, year on year.

Together with high-profile events which continue to make the wrong kind of headlines, this shows how it’s now more important than ever for a firm to:

understand the values its people adopt, both individually and collectively,
pay attention to the impact this can have on risk, and
take appropriate action where needed.

Through a series of practical steps, the objective of this workshop is to equip delegates with an approach that will enable them to better understand Conduct & Culture in their business, enhance the measurement tools available, advance the internal agenda, and design an action plan to meet strategic aims. In turn this will improve the perceptions of relevant stakeholders.

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Who Should Attend

The programme is ideal for those who are new to the topic, those who wish to develop their understanding and capabilities, and those who have specific development needs. This will include:

Audit, Risk and Compliance Specialists
Human Resources Professionals
C-Level Executives and Senior Managers, particularly those with personal responsibility for Conduct & Culture in their organisation
Non-Executive Directors
External Auditors and Financial Services Consultants
Those working in dual (PRA and FCA) or solo-regulated (FCA) firms

1a. Introductions
• Introductions
• Course Expectations
• Terminology: Conduct & Culture
• Your firm’s approach

1b. Refresher and Regulatory Insight
• Why is it important?
• FCA Handbook : Conduct Expectations
• FCA Conduct Assessment
• FCA Cultural assessment

2a. How to understand your Conduct & Culture
Developing an assessment approach – Overview
• Project options
• Project Advance : Phases 1-4
• Governance and stakeholder engagement

2b. Project Advance
Phase 1 – Identify conduct across the business
• Quantitative and Qualitative Indicators
• Management Information, Documentation and untapped sources
• Client, Colleague and Management
• Surveys, and how to ensure their usefulness
• The People, and how to draw out cultural perceptions
• Approach to sampling

2c. Project Advance
Phase 2 – Compare to desired conduct
• Guarding against bias
• Discussion, challenge and debate, and the process to determine outputs
• Validation, judgements and presenting the outcomes

2d. Project Advance
Phase 3 – Develop an improvement plan
• Target Culture
• Principles for development
• FCA considerations

2e. Project Advance
Phase 4 – Implementation: Create an even better Environment
• Reporting and the Culture agenda
• Conduct & Culture Committee, Sponsorship and FCA engagement
• Understanding the outcomes of your project
• How to determine success

3. Questions and Wrap-up
Understanding your firm
• Questions
• Your next steps
• Participant reflections

Industry Expert | Paul Whitehouse

Paul is a Solicitor and Financial Services Regulatory Adviser with more than 30 years’ experience. He is an expert in assessing the suitability and effectiveness of a firm’s governance, systems, controls and strategy, and helps to deliver lasting change to a business through detailed understanding and effective engagement.

Paul has deep experience of the regulatory environment and has seen into the heart of 100s of businesses, from the smallest to the largest, having worked in front line supervision at the Financial Conduct Authority, and the world’s largest insurance broker. During his career, Paul developed particular skills in identifying cultural aspects of an organisation, how its people come together to deliver the product, and what can hold them back. This has involved investigations into highly sensitive people matters relating to culture, such as DEI and whistleblowing.

His career in the legal industry also means that he understands supply-side client relationship management, budgeting, revenue and operational dynamics. Paul is passionate about customers, and business performing at its best through its people. He strongly believes that robust business practices and doing the right thing for customers can co-exist alongside commercial objectives.

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