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FCA to City: Use of WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram at work is ‘suspicious’

The FCA is keeping a close eye on City workers' use of unauthorised messaging apps

The FCA is keeping a close eye on the use of unauthorised messaging apps in finance as the UK’s largest firms grapple to monitor a pandemic-fuelled spike in the use of WhatsApp and its rivals among employees
The FCA is keeping a close eye on the use of unauthorised messaging apps in finance as the UK’s largest firms grapple to monitor a pandemic-fuelled spike in the use of WhatsApp and its rivals among employees Photo: Getty Images

Homebound City workers using WhatsApp, beware: The Financial Conduct Authority is watching you.

The UK’s regulator’s enforcer-in-chief has warned that the FCA is keeping a close eye on the use of unauthorised messaging apps in finance as the UK’s largest firms grapple to monitor a pandemic-fuelled spike in the use of WhatsApp and its rivals Signal and Telegram among employees.     

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