AFB Practice Workshop: Navigating Imposed Senior Management Accountability Reviews

Under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime, the FCA and PRA can initiate accountability reviews or require firms to conduct them if there are concerns about the firm’s culture or risk management. In partnership with Eversheds Sutherland, join your peers at a practice workshop to examine the nature, purpose, and practical implications of imposed senior management accountability reviews.

This workshop will provide clarity on when and why regulators impose these reviews, what they are designed to achieve, and how firms and senior managers can navigate them effectively.

Why attend?

Senior management accountability reviews can be complex, high‑stakes exercises with significant regulatory and organisational consequences. The workshop will provide members with practical insights, risk‑aware strategies, and a clear understanding of how to manage these reviews confidently and compliantly. The session will focus on the following key areas:

• When a senior management accountability review is likely to be imposed 
• Regulatory objectives, expectations, and the relevant FCA/PRA rules and guidance 
• Best‑practice approaches for planning and conducting an internal review 
• Typical outputs, findings, and outcomes, and what they mean for the bank and its senior managers 
• Managing legal privilege and confidentiality throughout the process 
• Considerations around disclosure to regulators and other third parties 
• Employment‑related implications for individuals involved 

Who should attend?

This workshop is aimed at those who manage governance, conduct, and regulatory risk. It will be particularly valuable for Senior Managers under the Senior Managers & Certification Regime as well as Heads of Compliance, Legal and Risk function leaders.

Speakers

Gregory Brandman, Partner, Litigation and Dispute Management

Greg was formerly a manager in the FCA’s Enforcement and Financial Crime Division. Greg specializes in regulatory investigations and representing financial institutions, their senior managers, and approved persons in FCA and PRA enforcement proceedings. He also specializes in financial services dispute resolution.

Greg has considerable investigations experience both from his time at the FCA and in private practice, including in relation to market abuse cases, systems and controls violations, client money breaches, mis-selling, and investigations into misconduct by senior managers and holders of accountable higher management functions.

In addition to his contentious regulatory work, Greg has considerable experience acting for financial institutions in relation to a wide range of commercial and financial services disputes. Greg regularly writes articles, speaks at conferences, comments in the media and provides training for clients in relation to a wide variety of financial services regulatory matters.

Logistics

Fee:          £275 + VAT

Venue:     In-person at Eversheds Sutherland, 1 Wood St, London EC2V 7WS

Date:        Wednesday 18 March 2026

Time:       09:00 – 11:00 (arrivals and breakfast from 8:30)

If you would like to submit a question or have any specific areas that you would like the session to address, please send them to AFB at secretariat@foreignbanks.org.uk You will receive details on how to join this session a week before the event.