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Compliance · Financial Promotions · 17 October 2026

The FCA will review its promotion rules for high-risk investments. Here is how uneven they are today

The FCA will review its promotion rules for high-risk investments. Set side by side, the rules for CFDs and crypto already differ.

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Compliance · Financial Promotions · 16 October 2026

The FCA’s CFD warning is about the overnight fee, and it starts in the advert

The FCA still has concerns about CFD overnight funding charges, and the fix starts with what promotions leave out.

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Compliance · Financial Promotions · 13 October 2026

One green claim, two regulators: ESMA’s new notes and the FCA’s anti-greenwashing rule

ESMA’s new do’s and don’ts for impact and climate transition claims mean the same sentence now has to satisfy ESMA and the FCA.

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Compliance · Financial Promotions · 9 October 2026

A crypto promotion is the whole journey, not the advert

Where a direct offer begins is still the hard question in UK crypto promotions. Map the journey and check each step.

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Compliance · Financial Promotions · 10 September 2026

Financial promotions fines: what fails before the penalty

Unauthorised promotions and misleading claims carry different risks. What recent FCA action says about checks before publishing.

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Compliance · Financial Promotions · 10 September 2026

The FCA is looking beyond the financial promotion sign-off

A signed approval is only part of the evidence. Check the claim, the audience and what customers will understand first.

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