Prudential Reporting Services

Simplify your regulatory reporting and prudential management obligations

Regulators continue to increase their focus on a firm’s capital monitoring and forecasting, and regulatory reporting processes. In turn, investment management and advisory organisations continue to seek expertise in regulatory oversight.

In addition, the Investment Firm Prudential Regime (IFPR) came into force for all UK MiFID investment firms on 1 January 2022. First developed by the European Union (EU) and subsequently refined by the FCA, the proposed new prudential rules introduce more complex and onerous capital, liquidity, reporting and governance requirements for affected firms.

ACA's experienced prudential regulatory reporting team are on hand with a wide range of solutions designed to help make your regulatory reporting obligations as simplified and seamless as possible.

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The UK’s Investment Firm Prudential Regime

13 Key Considerations for Successful Implementation

The Investment Firm Prudential Regime (IFPR) directly impacts any group that owns an FCA authorised firm that provides MiFID investment services and activities - 

Download our checklist to find out top tips to make sure you have addressed your obligations.

Our solutions

These prudential regulatory reporting services can be built into a package of compliance review services.

ICARA Services

If you are an organisations that makes discretionary investment management decisions (outside the scope of the AIFMD), you must conduct an assessment of regulatory capital held. The rules oblige your firm to:

  • Implement a formal Internal Capital and Risk Assessment ("ICARA") that is an expression of confidence that capital held is commensurate with risks faced.
  • Challenge the process annually or event-driven basis.

We can assist you with the preparation of the written ICARA Report by:

  • Quantifying the risk appetite and identifying major sources of risks
  • Documenting risk mitigation and the control environment
  • Quantifying capital requirements
  • Preparing financial forecasts and stress testing scenarios
  • Creating a wind-down plan 
Regulatory Reporting

Preparing and completing the regulatory reporting that organisations must give to regulators can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. Our prudential regulatory reporting specialists have extensive experience with executing on this type of reporting in key jurisdictions, including the US, UK and Malta. Hundreds of financial services firms over that time have trusted ACA to file this important information.

We can assist your firm by:

  • Providing integrated regulatory advice to principals and Head Office, as required
  • Forecasting prudential resources and robust capital planning
  • Preparing and filing regulatory returns on systems provided by supervisors, including RegData in the UK reporting (all financial and prudential data items)
Transparency or Annex IV Reporting Solutions

However simple or complex your firm’s transparency reporting needs are, our regulatory and reporting team can help ease the burden of this requirement. Our transparency reporting solutions include:

  • Ad hoc advice on discrete questions relating to portfolio data or Directive interpretation
  • The review and/or challenge of in-house or administrator prepared filings
  • Full “managed service” outsourcing for EEA and non-EEA AIFMs required to report to national regulators.
IFPR Programme implementation and support

Under the new rules, many firms have been hit with requirements to maintain significantly greater levels of capital.  

Our prudential regulatory reporting team are on hand to help you:  

  • Understand the new rules 

  • Implement the changes  

  • Address your regulatory reporting obligations 

Learn more

We have pulled together in-house expertise to produce an ICARA focused training session, designed to help simplify this complicated key risk management process. By attending this this new training course, you will learn more how to approach the ICARA process, including business strategy, stress testing, recovery, and wind-down planning.

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