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.



Pension Transfers – considering a workplace pension
Alistair MacDougall Compliance Defined Benefit, FCA, Pension, Pension Transfer, PI, Switch, transfer
We recently reviewed a pension transfer report where the client was recommended to transfer out of the defined benefit scheme into the client’s pre-existing SIPP. We considered that the recommendation to transfer appeared to be appropriate. However, the client had what the FCA calls an ‘available qualifying scheme’, more commonly referred to as a […]