Following the recent FCA changes to combined AR applications with the Approved Persons applications on 16th September, some firms who submitted prior to 16th are seeing a warning message advising them that the application cannot proceed until the Approved Person form is added.
The FCA has clarified that firms should ignore this warning message for any submissions prior to 16th September, and wait for the AR application to be processed before then adding the follow up Approved Persons information.
Ongoing client reviews – appropriate or not?
Alistair MacDougall Compliance FCA, Pension, PI, platform, Switch
FT Adviser published an article on 15 February under the headline “Advisers struggle to get savers to come for pension reviews”. We read this with interest and not a little concern. The article reported that one of the speakers at a recent conference stated that one of the greatest challenges faced by her advice […]