FCA Standards for Private Asset Valuations

Introduction

Valuing private assets is not just a technical exercise, it is a growing focus for regulators, and inaccurate valuation has been identified as a potential source of systemic risk across financial markets.

This bite-sized session explores the key guidance issued by the FCA, including insights from its multi-firm review of valuation processes for private market assets. It highlights the regulator’s expectations and why accurate, transparent valuation processes are more critical than ever.

You will gain a clear understanding of where firms are falling short, particularly in managing conflicts of interest and ensuring valuations are robust, consistent and defensible. The webinar also brings these themes to life with practical examples of good practice and actionable steps identified by the FCA.

Join this session to strengthen your approach to private asset valuation, address common pitfalls and implement effective mitigants that align with regulatory expectations.

What You Will Learn

This short webinar will cover the following:

• Governance of firms’ valuation processes with examples of good practice and guidance for firms to benchmark their own practices against the FCA’s findings
• How to identify, document and address potential conflicts of interest in the firms’ valuation processes. Regulatory expectations on how firms may manage and mitigate potential and actual valuation-related conflicts
• How to ensure functional independence of the valuation process
• Appropriate process for ad hoc valuations
• Including appropriateness and interrogation of methodologies
• Appropriate investor disclosure and engagement

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Friday 23rd October 2026

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