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# Foolproofing ICARAs for 2025

This guide helps you navigate the FCA’s evolving expectations and get your ICARA right the first time. It explores common pitfalls firms continue to face, highlights key focus areas such as stress testing and non-financial harms, and provides a clear, practical framework to help you build a stronger, more resilient ICARA.

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# Foolproofing ICARAs for 2025

Written by our prudential specialist Stacey Copper, this guide is designed to help you confidently meet the FCA’s evolving expectations and get your ICARA right from the start. It outlines the common mistakes firms still make, examines key regulatory focus areas like stress testing and non-financial harms, and offers a practical, structured approach to strengthen and streamline your ICARA process.

## Our guide will explore:

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Key ICARA pitfalls to avoid

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**The FCA's latest focus areas, from stress testing to non-financial harms**

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A clear, actionable framework with tools and templates to support your process

 

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We help financial services firms *measure, master and **maximise* their compliance framework. We benchmark where they are today against both the regulatory requirements and their industry peers and most importantly, where they want to go next and how to get there.