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.
Abridged advice – how is it going so far?
Alistair MacDougall Compliance 2015, 2018, 2020, 2021, abridged, Drawdown, FCA, Pension, Pension Transfer, PI, transfer
Based on data and live visits to firms during the period from April 2015 to rule changes in 2018 and 2020, the FCA believed that far too high a proportion of clients were being recommended to transfer safeguarded benefits. This was predicated on the longstanding rule which stated: “… a firm should start by assuming […]