As part of the FRC's campaign to support SMEs to engage with and access audit, Kate O'Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs, and Mark Babington, Executive Director of Regulatory Standards, discuss the role of audit standards and how they can be applied in a proportionate and scalable way.

Understanding audit standards

Sink Or Swim

Join Kate O'Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs, Mark Babington, Executive Director of Regulatory Standards, and Dhruve Shah, Deputy Director of Professional Body Supervision, as they run through some of the early themes and feedback from the FRC's SME audit market study. 

SME Audit Market Study: What we've been hearing

In this podcast episode, Kate O'Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs, and Project Directors, Ramana McConnon and Peter Kitson, discuss the crucial role audit plays in enhancing trust, confidence and transparency in financial statements.  

What is an Audit?

In this podcast episode, Kate O'Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Sarah Rapson, Executive Director of Supervision discuss the 2025 Annual Review of Audit Quality. The report explores the inspection and supervision results of audit firms across  the UK Public Interest Entity (PIE) market while also highlighting the introduction of the audit firm metrics.

FRC publishes annual audit firm inspection results

In our latest In Conversation podcast, Kate O’Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs, is joined by Elizabeth Barrett, Executive Director of Enforcement & Executive Counsel, to discuss the latest Annual Enforcement Review, the ongoing End-to-End Enforcement review, and how this will shape the future of Enforcement at the FRC. 

In Conversation: Annual Enforcement Review

Richard Moriarty, CEO, joins Kate O'Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs, to discuss what the FRC has accomplished so far this year, take stock of the current political and economic environment, and give updates about the progress of some of its larger projects such as the Future of Audit Supervision Strategy, End to End Enforcement Review and SME audit market study. 

In Conversation with Richard Moriarty, CEO

Here's the recording of my live set from FRC 2025 this year on Friday night! Was really really feeling the love in this one and had a lot of fun playing on Bruce from JK's sound system! What a weekend filled with hard work, good silly, great tunes and good people. 

Special thanks to jdn / Station Point for helping with a quick master <3

And of course my love Bessie for the photo!

WithLove

FRC 2025 Deep Friday

For the third episode of the FRC's podcast series exploring the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024, Kate O’Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs, is joined by Maureen Beresford, Director of Corporate Governance and Stewardship at the FRC, and Wendy Barnes, portfolio non-executive director and cyber resilience advisor.

The conversation focuses on the growing importance of cyber risk in corporate governance, particularly in light of the revised Code coming into effect in 2026. They discuss how boards can approach cyber risk as a strategic issue rather than a purely technical one, the role of board-level oversight, and the importance of building organisational resilience. The episode also highlights practical tools and frameworks available to support boards in navigating this evolving area.

In Conversation: Board leadership in relation to cyber risk - UK Corporate Governance Code 2024

In the final episode of the FRC's podcast series on the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024, Kate O'Neill, Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Corporate Affairs, is joined by Maureen Beresford, Director of Corporate Governance and Stewardship, and Kelvin Ernest Senior Policy Associate in the Corporate Governance team, for a thought-provoking discussion on the importance of remuneration and the vital role of the remuneration committee. Together, they unpack the purpose and significance of Section 5 of the Code, and explore why it plays such a crucial role in today's evolving corporate landscape.

In Conversation: Remuneration - UK Corporate Governance Code 2024

Sets I love,
Tracks I like,
From me to you,
and everyone alike.

<3

An avid music lover all my life, I began to start collecting tracks for play and pleasure in about 2006. Influenced by everything from bootyshaking sets to deep dark melodic scratch your brain journeys from SF/OAK and other West Coast DJs and a handful of venues I would go to, I decided it was time to start crafting some of my own sets that make people FEEL.

It's the music’s ability to break down barriers, social and otherwise, that continues to drive me to try new things. Wanting to help do this very thing led me on a search for my own equipment. Scoring a basic mixing setup from a local pawn shop, I've been collecting as much music to play with as I can. It's time for me to contribute to breaking barriers and walls that other DJs had, even unknowingly, helped me to overcome. So let go, enjoy the ride and relax with me :)

New tracks tagged #FRC