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Examples of how we've helped firms get authorised, stay compliant, and respond to the FCA.
A payments firm's authorisation had stalled amid case-handler and personnel changes. MEMA stabilised the process and secured authorisation in 9 months.
The FCA flagged compliance-position issues during an investment authorisation. MEMA's ex-regulator team resolved every query and got the firm authorised.
For firms without a full in-house compliance team, MEMA runs an embedded compliance function - monthly regulatory horizon-scanning, project tracking and on-tap FCA support.
A payments firm needed a financial-crime framework that satisfied both the FCA and its banking partners. MEMA built the risk assessment, controls and monitoring end to end.
When a firm's compliance resource left suddenly, MEMA stepped in as an interim function, ran a full review, and stabilised operations over 6 months.
When a firm's FCA permissions were at risk and an in-flight application no longer the right route, MEMA advised a strategic withdrawal and a clean re-authorisation under the correct entity.
Following FCA supervisory feedback and a voluntary requirement on retirement income advice, MEMA ran a full remediation programme. The requirement was lifted.
A fintech aggregating payment account data through third-party providers needed to articulate its perimeter and control framework to register as a RAISP. MEMA supported the application through to registration.
A wealth management firm had completed initial Consumer Duty mapping but was not monitoring whether ongoing advice fees delivered fair value on older, closed-book products. MEMA built the evidence base and a costed remediation plan.
MEMA carried out scoping for a firm on what it needed under the incoming UK cryptoasset regime.
MEMA helped an international firm understand its UK regulatory requirements and what it needed in order to operate here.
MEMA helped with controls provided to principal firms, and then supported the firm through direct authorisation.
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