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Description

This PR adds the FCA Compliance MCP server to the official MCP ecosystem. The server provides AI agents with
specialized tools for UK Financial Conduct Authority regulatory compliance analysis, transforming general AI
agents into compliance experts for financial services.

Repository: https://github.com/99blakeD99/mcp-server-fca-compliance

Server Details

  • Server: New Addition - mcp-server-fca-compliance
  • Changes to: Adding new server entry to ecosystem README.md

Motivation and Context

Financial services compliance is increasingly complex, with the FCA Handbook containing thousands of
interconnected requirements. This MCP server addresses the critical need for AI-native regulatory intelligence
by providing:

  • Rapid compliance assessment for policy documents and business processes
  • Context-aware requirement extraction for specific regulatory scenarios
  • Systematic compliance analysis with detailed regulatory mapping
  • Professional audit documentation preparation capabilities

The server implements AI Agent Oriented architecture with semantic anchoring, enabling AI agents to
automatically discover and utilize FCA-specific compliance tools when processing regulatory queries.

How Has This Been Tested?

MCP Server Startup: Verified proper JSON-RPC 2.0 protocol implementation
Tool Discovery: Confirmed all 7 FCA-prefixed tools are discoverable by MCP clients
Claude Desktop Integration: Tested tool invocation and response handling
Database Connectivity: Validated connection to regulatory content database
Error Handling: Confirmed graceful failure modes and informative error messages

Tested scenarios include compliance document analysis, regulatory requirement extraction, and systematic policy
review workflows.

Breaking Changes

No breaking changes - This is a new server addition with no impact on existing MCP ecosystem servers or
client configurations.

Types of changes

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Documentation update

Checklist

  • I have read the MCP Protocol Documentation
  • My changes follows MCP security best practices
  • I have updated the server's README accordingly
  • I have tested this with an LLM client
  • My code follows the repository's style guidelines
  • New and existing tests pass locally
  • I have added appropriate error handling
  • I have documented all environment variables and configuration options

Additional context

Enterprise Focus: Built specifically for financial services compliance professionals, with comprehensive
error handling, audit trails, and professional-grade output suitable for regulatory scrutiny.

Expansion Ready: This server establishes the foundation for a suite of regulatory compliance MCP servers,
with plans to extend the same AI Agent Oriented methodology to additional frameworks like MiFID II, SEC Rules,
and Basel III.

Professional Architecture: The server follows MCP best practices with proper error handling, comprehensive
testing, and enterprise-grade security considerations for financial services environments.

The wording is now consistent with the separate repository approach - emphasizing the standalone server while
mentioning the broader expansion strategy without referencing monorepo consolidation.

99blakeD99 and others added 6 commits July 16, 2025 19:06
Adds Universal FSCompliance MCP server to the community servers list. This server provides AI-powered compliance intelligence for financial services regulatory requirements with 9 specialized tools for regulatory analysis, gap detection, and audit preparation.
Update README.md to  add Universal FSCompliance MCP to community servers
- First MCP server from Universal_FSCompliance_MCP Project
- Stage 1 skeletal server with professional placeholder responses
- FCA Handbook compliance intelligence for financial services
- Q3 2025 full functionality launch

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Updated to concise format: "FCA Handbook compliance intelligence for financial services"
- Matches standard description length and style of other Official Integrations
- Maintains professional positioning while following ecosystem patterns

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
🚨 **CRITICAL FIX**: Update repository URL to point to correct location:
- **Old URL**: https://github.com/99blakeD99/mcp-server-fca-compliance
- **New URL**: https://github.com/99blakeD99/Universal_FSCompliance_MCP/tree/main/mcp-servers/fca-compliance

After repository consolidation, the MCP server implementation moved
from separate repository into main Universal_FSCompliance_MCP project
under multi-server architecture following AI Agent Oriented design.

This ensures MCP ecosystem PR modelcontextprotocol#2394 points to the correct, current
implementation with Stage 2 functionality and LLM abstraction layer.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
@olaservo olaservo added the add-community-server This pull request adds a link to a community-created server. label Jul 26, 2025
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Hi, I was checking out the repo and it looks like this still just has placeholder content in the server?

@olaservo olaservo added the waiting for submitter Waiting for the submitter to provide more info label Aug 3, 2025
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Yes. 7 Tools are currently being developed and tested and these will
replace the placeholders. We expect change and improvement to the Tools
will be continuous, so just submitted the placeholders, ready to populate.

@99blakeD99 Lets mark this PR as a Draft until the tools are actually implemented and usable. (or, you could also close this and re-open when you're ready.) Thanks!

@domdomegg domdomegg marked this pull request as draft August 16, 2025 21:16
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This now has the upgrades we believe will meet MCP requirements.

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