DMARC for Financial Services: Email Fraud and the FCA
For FCA-regulated firms, email fraud is both a financial and a compliance risk. Here is how DMARC protects your clients and your obligations.
Financial services firms sit at the intersection of money, sensitive data and regulation, which makes email impersonation a serious operational and compliance risk. The FCA expects firms to manage exactly this kind of threat.
What this short video covers
- Why financial firms are high value targets for impersonation
- How criminals spoof your domain to reach clients and staff
- What DMARC, SPF and DKIM do, and how they fit operational resilience
- How email authentication supports FCA expectations on fraud and resilience
- Why monitoring gives you the evidence and assurance you need
A spoofed email that appears to come from a regulated firm can move money or extract data with alarming ease. Criminals forge your domain so messages look genuine to clients and colleagues alike. Without DMARC at enforcement, your firm has little control over who sends email in its name.
Beyond the direct fraud risk, the FCA focus on operational resilience and fraud prevention makes basic email authentication something firms are increasingly expected to have. DMARC, properly enforced and monitored, both reduces the risk and gives you reporting to evidence that the control is working.
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Founder of SealedMail and a UK email-security specialist in DMARC, SPF, DKIM and email authentication for regulated sectors. He personally reads the DMARC and TLS reports behind every SealedMail account and writes the company's plain-English guides. More from Shaun Cooke →
