• Deep dive on the challenges that matter most: Explore practical topics such as market abuse, conflicts of interest, culture, accountability and non-financial misconduct.

• Choose your experience: Select from concurrent session streams, allowing you to tailor the event to your role and priorities.

• Learn from industry leaders: Hear how firms are approaching complex compliance challenges.

• Make valuable connections: With a curated audience and extended networking reception, this event is designed to foster meaningful, high-quality conversations.

What to Expect

• 16:00 - 16:30: Welcome reception with refreshments

• 16:30 - 16:50: Opening remarks
  
  
• 16:50 - 17:10: FCA Priorities for 2026: From sharpened scrutiny of private market valuations and conflicts of interest, to rising expectations around operational resilience and AI governance. Panellists will cut through the regulatory language to focus on what firms actually need to do. 
  
  
• 17:15 - 18:00: 
  • Stream 1: Market Abuse in the Age of Complexity: This session will explore how firms can adapt their market abuse frameworks to remain effective in an environment shaped by predictive markets, emerging asset classes and instruments, and heightened regulatory expectations around insider dealing and market integrity.
    
    
  • Stream 2: From Policy to Practice -  Embedding the FCA’s Non-Financial Misconduct Rules: This panel explores what the new rules actually demand of compliance, HR, and senior leadership working together, how firms are building conduct frameworks that are both defensible and proportionate, and where technology and data can play a meaningful role in connecting the dots between culture, conduct, and risk. 
    
    
• 18:00 - 20:00: Networking drinks and canapés

These sessions may qualify for 1 hour of structured CPD. Acceptance of CPD is subject to your firm’s Training & Competence scheme and/or your professional body requirements.