ICARA & FCA Reporting
Internal Capital Adequacy and Risk Assessment (ICARA)
Thistle Initiatives will assist your preparation for the ICARA process, including capital and liquidity planning, stress testing, recovery planning and wind down planning. We also aid with reviewing firms’ ICARA documentation to ensure compliance with FCA expectations.
Wind-Down Planning
Our team can develop wind-down plans for firms and has substantial insight into the FCA’s expectations in this area. We have extensive experience of wind-down planning with firms of all types.
FCA Regulatory Reporting (including MIF001-MIF008)
Consolidated Investment Firm Group
Investment Firms Prudential Regime
The IFPR introduced a requirement for all firms in scope of the regime to complete an internal capital adequacy and risk assessment (ICARA) process. Through the ICARA process, firms identify the risk of harm in their operations and provide appropriate resources to mitigate harm, whether as a going concern or when winding down.
View our IFPR downloadable guide
How Thistle Initiatives works
Step 1
Capital and liquidity requirements are more than just numbers and calculations. Our prudential services can help you interpret the requirements based on your firm’s permissions and activities to deliver against the expectations of the FCA’s Investment Firms Prudential Regime (IFPR).
Step 2
Preparing your ICARA and prudential regulatory reporting. Our ICARA template is available as a standalone offering as well as alongside consulting support.
Step 3
Reviewing the effectiveness of your ICARA documentation to ensure you have met the overall financial adequacy rule.
What our investment clients have to say
“Our experience of working with Thistle Initiatives to add our CASS permissions has been great. Thistle helped to create the application to vary our FCA permissions and helped to respond to the FCA’s detailed questions following submission. Thistle assisted quickly and clearly at all times, including during the more complex aspects of the process.”
“Our experience of working with Thistle Initiatives has been exceptionally good. After due consideration and comparison of various service providers, WMG Advisors engaged Thistle to perform an external review of our systems and controls, our policies and procedures and to provide ongoing training to meet our compliance needs. Thistle deployed serious resources to the project, and provided comprehensive analysis and recommendations. Thistle has responded quickly and clearly to all of our requests to date. We continue to be impressed with both the methodology and the people that we deal with throughout their organisation.”
“Thistle Initiatives provide us with invaluable expertise with their ongoing compliance support and delivered end-to-end assistance with our FCA application to add Alternative Investment Fund Management to our permissions. The service from the team is always on-point and efficient; we highly recommend them.”