The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) are procuring a new framework agreement to replace the current Consultancy and Skilled Persons Framework. This will cover Skilled Persons, Consultancy and Multi-Firm Failure and will be broken into multiple Lots.
Values stated at a Lot level are a very rough estimate as the use of this framework at this level is very unpredictable.
Financial News (FN) provides access to unique news, analysis and commentary on securities
and investment banking, asset management, hedge funds, private equity, trading and
technology.
The FCA will be conducting a direct award to eFinancial News Limited for the continuation of
Financial
News enterprise-wide subscription for a 36-month term valued at £150,000 (Zero rated VAT)
commencing 25 April 2025
This contract is to provide support to design, organise, manage, and facilitate a sprint on the future of Open Finance in order to enable the project's acceleration and support the implementation of the FCA's strategy 2025.
They FCA required daily access to market data. Some of the risks in this requirement is not in
place: It would limit the FCA's ability to bring successful criminal and regulatory action.
FCA may not effectively review alerts from our surveillance system, with a risk to our
commitment to clean markets. The FCA could not monitor for orderly markets. The data
and insight that Bloomberg can provide is key for departments to be able to deliver on its
market monitoring objective. There is no viable alternative product. Major policy would go
without empirical support, in short evidence-based policy making would be severely
impacted. Retaining Bloomberg license is critical for the FCA to complete our statutory
objective of 1/ promoting competition and 2/ consumer protection. We are increasingly
encouraged to rely on more existing data within the FCA and enhance those with publicly
available data. Bloomberg licences is critical to enhance regulatory returns and allow us to
perform our function of financial analysis. Internal departments would impact the ability to
conduct real-time surveillance of the UK market. Monitoring key funds and relevant
investments, market trends and volatility and cross-referencing company information (to
test its veracity) in various complex Supervisory efforts would become difficult.
We are currently tendering to appoint a bond consolidated tape provider. As part of the tender, we will require software to run a descending price auction between bidders.
We are currently tendering to appoint a bond consolidated tape provider. As part of the tender, we will require software to run a descending price auction between bidders.
Trial Services including:
End of day transcription service;
Realtime transcription;
Electronic presentation of evidence screens;
Electronic Bundling; and
Platform use ahead of and during the hearing.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) are procuring a new framework agreement to replace the current Consultancy and Skilled Persons Framework. This will cover Skilled Persons, Consultancy and Multi-Firm Failure and will be broken into multiple Lots.
Values stated at a Lot level are a very rough estimate as the use of this framework at this level is very unpredictable.
Provision of expertise and knowledge across the global financial regulatory environment (+1300 reg. bodies, 2500 collections of regulatory and legislative materials) and access to historic.
Provision of expertise and knowledge across the global financial regulatory environment (+1300 reg. bodies, 2500 collections of regulatory and legislative materials) and access to historic.
Awarding of Concession Contract for UK Bond Consolidated Tape Provider (subject to FCA Authorisation process).
A more detailed contract estimate will be shared in the UK7 Contract Details Notice.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is establishing a contractual mechanism for the Payments Systems Regulator (PSR), who are seeking to procure a supplier to deliver an independently conducted evaluation of its key policies on Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud – particularly focussing on the reimbursement requirement. This is principally an impact evaluation, though in addition to the analysis of the policies’ impacts we require the chosen supplier to provide an independent view on the effectiveness of the policies at achieving their target outcomes. The final analysis and independent view of the policies’ effectiveness will be published in the form of a report.
Awarding of Concession Contract for UK Bond Consolidated Tape Provider (subject to FCA Authorisation process).
A more detailed contract estimate will be shared in the UK7 Contract Details Notice.
Standstill end date: 17 September 2025
Awarding of Concession Contract for UK Bond Consolidated Tape Provider (subject to FCA Authorisation process).
A more detailed contract estimate will be shared in the UK7 Contract Details Notice.
Standstill end date: midnight on 19 September 2025
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is establishing a contractual mechanism for the Payments Systems Regulator (PSR), who have procured a supplier to deliver an independently conducted evaluation of its key policies on Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud – particularly focusing on the reimbursement requirement. This is principally an impact evaluation, though in addition to the analysis of the policies’ impacts we require the chosen supplier to provide an independent view on the effectiveness of the policies at achieving their target outcomes. The final analysis and independent view of the policies’ effectiveness will be published in the form of a report.
The FCA is looking to procure an IGA system that will automate and streamline the joiners, movers and leavers (JML) processes, while integrating with the current authoritative systems (Workday and Active Directory - AD) and will enable the onboarding of critical applications and improve the management of timely recertification of access for these applications. The FCA is interested in significantly improving efficiencies within its existing IGA capability. The main opportunity that has been identified is to reduce risk through improved identity governance, improved access review, consistent processing of joiners, movers and leavers (JML) and assured compliance with rules for segregation of duties and other policies. In addition, there are opportunities to increase efficiency through reduction of manual work and duplication of effort and to increase effectiveness through real-time working and consistent, repeatable processes.