SM&CR indicators
Will you be ready for the SM&CR review when it comes?

We have some exciting news on the latest upgrade to ATEB Suitability on 9 April 2025. This update comes at no additional cost and provides a new addition to our content integration library. We have partnered with Pacific Asset Management to provide our customer firms with access to the following: A description of their service [...]
Alistair MacDougall Compliance 2020, FCA, SM&CR
Will you be ready for the SM&CR review when it comes?
Alistair MacDougall Compliance 2020, FCA, Pension, Pension Transfer
A sea change of focus hidden in a subtle change of terminology.
Alistair MacDougall Compliance complaints, MiFID
You are probably familiar with the concept of a target market under PROD rules. What about the negative target market?
Alistair MacDougall Compliance complaints, Pension, PI, Update
How to avoid some of the commonly found issues with Suitability Reports.
Alistair MacDougall Compliance 2019, 2020, COVID-19, FCA
The FCA has issued a second guidance consultation relating to vulnerable customers.
Alistair MacDougall Compliance 2014, Pension
An email hacking scam first seen a few years ago is back.
Alistair MacDougall Compliance DB Pension, FCA, Pension, Pension Transfer, PI
Do you have to provide a suitability report for clients that are not UK citizens?
Alistair MacDougall Compliance 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, Data Protection Act, GDPR, PI
The EU/US Privacy Shield agreement has been struck down by the ECJ.
David Anderson Suitability complaints, Pension, PI, Update
There is an old joke about a man going to his dentist, picking up a magazine in the waiting room and reading that the Titanic had sunk. This reference to how out of date dentists’ reading material can be is unfortunately not merely a mildly amusing joke or restricted to dentists.
Our new website is www.thistleinitiatives.co.uk. There will be no further posts here from ATEB Compliance. You can keep up to date with all of our usual regulatory and company updates here going forward.
Another pension switch bites the dust
Alistair MacDougall Compliance complaints, FOS, Pension, PI, Switch
Yet another switch has been found wanting at the FOS.