Delivering your Consumer Duty implementation plans
By the end of October 2022, firms should have reviewed, challenged and agreed their plans for implementing the Consumer Duty, ensuring that they were robust and deliverable, and should now be well on the way to putting those plans into practice and embedding…
HM Government: Department for levelling up, housing and communities (DLUHC) responds to the FCA's report about the buildings insurance market for multi-occupancy residential buildings
The DLUHC has published a further letter to the FCA from the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, setting out his response to the FCA’s September 2022 report about the multiple-occupancy residential buildings insurance market. The letter acknowledges the FCA’s…
Evidence to support GI pricing reporting and the senior manager attestation
Following the March 2022 general insurance (GI) pricing senior manager attestations, the FCA carried out follow-up work that involved contacting firms and asking for sight of the evidence and management information (MI) that they had considered to enable them…
Relevance to AR Principals of the recent FCA CMC Portfolio Letter
The FCA has sent a letter to Claims Management Companies (CMCs) which, although not as hard-line as their similar October 2020 Portfolio Letter, provides a window into the FCA’s current focus on unregulated activity. Firms should understand the reasons for…
FCA writes to firms about RegData and survey emails
The FCA has issued emails to insurance firms about period-end reporting that is due, and to Principal firms in relation to its request for data about Appointed Representatives. The first is an auto-generated email from the RegData system, reminding firms that…
New multi-factor authentication for access to FCA systems
From 20th January 2023 the FCA will be introducing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for logging-in to its systems, which will be an additional level of security the regulator considers necessary to protect and control access to FCA and firm data. This Hot…