The FCA will be continuing their well received Live and Local roadshows during 2017.
Positive Compliance will run on the mornings of 10 and 11 January in Leeds.
Positive Compliance mortgage sessions will run on the afternoons of 10 and 11 January in Leeds. This session will focus on expectations of firms providing advice from a regulatory perspective, allow participants to share good practice and explore the findings of the FCA’s thematic work.
A supervisory workshop, focusing on professional governance, will be held on 17 January in York.
One-to-one surgeries will be held on the 18 January in Doncaster.
There will be a roundtable on 26 January in Harrogate, attended by a panel of FCA and industry representatives.
You can register for all sessions here.
Registration is also open for the sessions that will be run in the North West in March.
FCS Transitional Arrangements
Steve Bailey Compliance Update
As you will be aware the Financial Services Authority ceased to be and the Financial Conduct Authority took over the regulation of financial advice firms on 01 April 2013.
The FSA issued PS13/05 last week which includes updated rules and transition arrangements. The policy statement itself is 88 pages but the ‘appendix (3)’ that accompanies it is a mere 1990 pages so you must excuse us for not as yet absorbing every word. The document can be seen here.