The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority announced last week that after conducting research into whether the UK should offer financial incentives to whistleblowers (as is now done in the U.S. by the SEC and other regulators), it had concluded that doing so would not be advisable. “The research showed that introducing financial incentives for whistleblowers would be unlikely to increase the number or quality of the disclosures we receive from them,” the FCA stated in a paper issued jointly last week with the Bank of England Prudential Regulation Authority.
