Regulatory Updates

FCA Consultation on Consumer Credit Regulatory Returns - CP24/19

9 Oct 2024 - Hot TopICS

The FCA is consulting (CP24/19) on proposals to issue a new regulatory reporting return (CCR009) which will capture firms with a credit broking Permission, and which will also impact firms which carry on the regulated activities of debt adjusting, debt…

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FCA Thematic Review TR24/2: product oversight and governance – overview, distributors and manufacturers

16 Sept 2024 - Hot TopICS

Following a review of general insurance (GI) and pure protection (PP) manufacturers’ and distributors’ product oversight and governance arrangements, the FCA has published a Thematic Review – TR24/2 – “Product Oversight and Governance thematic review – General…

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Building operational resilience

12 Aug 2024 - Hot TopICS

Resilience can be defined as an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change or, in simple terms, the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. This concept of resilience is not just about having a business continuity plan or disaster…

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Outcomes monitoring and Board reporting under the Consumer Duty – the FCA’s Insurance multi-firm review – Part two

18 Jul 2024 - Hot TopICS

The detailed ‘Consumer Duty-specific’ findings in the FCA’s recent report published on its website sets out the key findings from its December 2023 review of larger insurance firms’ approaches to outcomes monitoring under the Consumer Duty (‘the Duty’). For…

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Outcomes monitoring and Board reporting under the Consumer Duty – the FCA’s Insurance multi-firm review – Part one

17 Jul 2024 - Hot TopICS

Under the Consumer Duty firms must regularly assess, test, understand and evidence the outcomes their customers are receiving. Without this, it will be impossible for firms to know that they are meeting the requirements set out in the Duty. The FCA…

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Conflicts of interest for insurance intermediaries

2 Jul 2024 - Hot TopICS

In a ‘Consumer Duty’ regulatory world, conflicts of interest remain at the heart of Principle 12 (the ‘Consumer Principle’), the Duty’s three cross-cutting Rules, and Principle 8 (managing conflicts of interest fairly, both between the firm and…

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