Permanent, Interim or Fractional: Which Compliance Hire Does Your Firm Actually Need?
One of the most consequential decisions in a compliance search happens before the search itself starts: deciding whether the firm needs a permanent compliance hire, an interim appointment, or a fractional engagement. Most firms make this decision quickly, often by default, and then find six …
How to Choose a Compliance Recruitment Agency That Understands the FCA
Choosing a Compliance Recruitment Agency That Understands the FCA Hiring a senior compliance professional into an FCA-regulated firm is a meaningfully different exercise from hiring most other senior roles. The candidate’s competence will be directly assessed by the regulator. The role almost always sits inside …
The Compliance Recruitment Agency Checklist: What Regulated Firms Should Be Asking
The Compliance Recruitment Agency Checklist: What Regulated Firms Should Be Asking Choosing the right compliance recruitment agency is one of those decisions that looks straightforward until it goes wrong. By the time a search has produced three rounds of unsuitable candidates, burned through ten weeks …
Why Your Compliance Hire Keeps Falling Through (And What to Do About It)
If you have been trying to fill a compliance role for longer than you expected — and the search keeps stalling, candidates keep withdrawing, or offers keep getting turned down — you are not experiencing bad luck. You are experiencing a pattern. And patterns have …
How long does FCA SMF approval actually take? A realistic timeline for regulated firm boards
How long does FCA approval for a Senior Manager Function actually take? The legal answer is three months from the date the regulator receives a properly completed application. The practical answer is that the FCA now decides most senior manager applications well inside that limit …
How the FCA Form A approval process works: a practical guide for regulated firm boards
Short answer FCA Form A is the application a regulated firm submits through the FCA’s Connect system to have an individual approved for a Senior Management Function (SMF). The firm, not the candidate, applies. A long Form A is needed if the candidate has never …
How SMCR is changing the senior appointment timetable for FCA-regulated firms
Boards at FCA-regulated firms approaching senior appointments often underestimate the timetable. The search work itself — brief, market mapping, candidate engagement, assessment, offer — runs on a familiar calendar. The Form A submission, fitness and propriety work and regulatory approval that follow offer acceptance run …
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