Essential Strategies for Financial Services Compliance

Preface (or How Not to be an Execution Officer)
 

Acknowledgements
 

List of Abbreviations

PART I: COMMENTARYAND CONTEXT

1 The UK Regulatory Environment
 

1.1 Different regulatory regimes in the UK
 

1.2 The FSMA regime for investment business
 

1.3 The UK's anti-money-laundering regime
 

1.4 The UK's takeover regime
 

2 The Compliance Function
 

2.1 Compliance as a concept
 

2.2 The Compliance Officer

2.3 Compliance: good and bad

2.4 The argument for Compliance 

2.5 Compliance as a profession

3 The Compliance Contract

3.1 The Compliance Mission Statement

3.2 The Compliance Charter
 

4 Mapping Your Compliance Universe

5 Mapping Your Corporate Universe

5.1 Operating entities

5.2 Business units

5.3 External Service Providers

6 Regulators and Other Industry Bodies

6.1 Exchanges

6.2 Clearing houses

7 The Legislative Environment and Rules Mapping

7.1 Rules mapping

7.2 Detailed rules mapping for your own firm

7.3 Mapping requirement for an overseas jurisdiction

8 Financial Products, Services and Documentation

8.1 Products and services

8.2 Understanding products and services in context

8.3 Documentation

9 Compliance Outside the Compliance Department

9.1 The Front office

9.2 The Back office and other support functions

10 Key Compliance Department Activities

10.1 Routine activities

10.2 Off Piste Compliance: advisory work

10.3 Compliance conundrums
 

11 Comply or Die - When Things go Wrong

11.1 Someone's watching you

11.2 The FSA has 'hot buttons'

11.3 What the FSA can do to find out more

11.4 What to do if you are being investigated or are subject to disciplinary action

11.5 Consequences of rule breaches and other regulatory misdemeanours

APPENDICES

A Routine Compliance Activities

B Routine Anti-Money-Laundering Activities

C Compliance in the Front Office

D Compliance for Senior Management, the Back Office and Other Support Departments

E Compliance Conundrums - What Would You Do?

PART II: INFORMATIVE EXAMPLES

Box 1: Acting on Principle

Box 2: ARROW

Box 3: Basel II and CRD

Box 4: Extradition

Box 5: Financial Services Action Plan

Box 6: Going Global?

Box 7: Industry Guidance

Box 8: L&G v. the FSA - Who are the real winners and losers?

Box 9: Markets in Financial Instruments Directive

Box 11: Prudential Regulation of Capital Adequacy

Box 12: The Enforcement Process Getting on the wrong side of the FSA

Box 13: The Lamfalussy Process

Box 14: The Laundering Process

Box 15: Treating Customers Fairly

PART III: APPENDICES ON THE WEBSITE

1 Regulators and Other Industry Bodies

2 Exchanges and Clearing Houses

3 Financial Services Legislation

4 Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing

5 EU Legislation Relevant to Financial Services in the UK

6 US Legislation Relevant to Financial Services in the UK

7 Equities, Bonds and Loans - Summary Differences

8 Equities

9 Bonds

10 Loans

11 Derivatives

12 Collective Investment

13 Foreign Exchange

14 The Money Market

15 Islamic Finance

16 Trade Finance

17 Trusts

18 National Savings and Investments

19 Customer Documents

20 Trade Documents

21 Regulatory Documents

22 UK Tax Documents

23 Sample Enforcement Actions

24 Sources and Resources

Index