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Featured Articles
Conduct, culture and Covid-19
Work life has been utterly transformed during the Covid-19 lockdown. Bustling workplaces have been emptied out, replaced by home offices, dining room tables or even bedrooms, and it is...
Measuring culture – can it be done?
Corporate culture is critical for corporate success and corporate responsibility, yet it is widely seen as impossible to measure objectively. Researchers at the London School of Economics have...
Why Confirmation of Payee can't come soon enough
Digital banking is a powerful tool. But powerful tools need safety features, especially when fraudsters are becoming increasingly inventive.
Psychological safety: the secret to effective teams
A willingness to call out mistakes and concerns at work has proved vital in hospital operating theatres. It is a lesson we can all heed.
Journey into distress part 1 – a study of the UK’s troubled...
A study of the credit files of hundreds of thousands of people reveals the typical financial lives of those who fall into money problems. The findings confirm, but also confound many assumptions...
AI transparency in financial services – why, what, who and w...
The FCA and The Alan Turing Institute are working on a year-long collaboration on AI transparency. In this blog post, we explain the motivation for pursuing such a project and present an initial...