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People Management · 7 July 2025

FCA extends non-financial misconduct rules to 37,000 firms – what impact will it have on workplace culture and reporting?

Reported by People Management. The analysis below is ours.

In force from 1 September 2026

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37,000

firms for whom bullying and harassment became a reportable regulatory matter

Every firm under the senior managers and certification regime, not only banks

Culture just stopped being a values poster and became a filing. Substantiated bullying and harassment now reach the regulator through the same door as financial misconduct.

What MeaningFuel does about it

Before it happensWhat the daily ritual works on, every working day
Integrity, Respect and Accountability become a question somebody answers on a Tuesday morning rather than a slide in an induction deck, on all 250 working days rather than one. The conduct a firm can evidence to a regulator is the conduct it was working on before anybody asked.
After it hasThe module prescribed to the team that has this
Book Civility and Respect for the team where something is actually happening: ten short daily lessons over two working weeks on the slights and put-downs that escalate, and on what a colleague can do when they see one, with two ten-minute debriefs its lead runs. Each person chooses whether to take part, and the lead sees that the team is doing it, never anyone's answers.
What management seesThe reading that makes either one provable
Engagement by team and by theme, plus training hours per employee in the shape GRI 404-1 and ESRS S1-13 ask for. What anybody chose waits until enough have answered to hide each choice, and no screen shows an individual's.

The offsite worked. That was never the problem.

Week six is the problem. The person who ran it has moved teams, the thing everyone agreed has quietly stopped happening, and nobody can name the day it stopped.

MeaningFuel keeps it going: one short insight each working day on the values you chose, and a two-week micro-training for any team that falls behind. You see which teams carry them, pooled, with nobody named.

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