Although we know that most firms are aware of the FCA’s post 2014 budget guidance, it is most certainly worthwhile our highlighting and reiterating what is expected of firms in the interim period i.e. up to April 2015.
The FCA’s guidance FG14-03 can be found here and if you have not already done so, please read this carefully. Note in particular the guidance in section 2 that explains what is expected for clients in different stages of the retirement process.
We recommend that you formally document your response to the guidance paper.



Trust Registration Service – update
John Begg Compliance 2017, 2020, 2021, EU, ML, Pension, PI, Register, transfer, Update
New rules, transposing the Fifth Money Laundering Directive (5MLD) into UK law took effect on 10 January 2020. One impact of the rules was to broaden the scope of the Trust Registration Service (TRS) requirements. you can read more about 5MLD and TRS here. In brief, the previous rules required that all express trusts that […]