The latest FCA Positive Compliance workshops will focus on the regulatory requirements of RDR (morning session) and the use of Centralised Investment Propositions and Replacement Business (afternoon session).
We don’t expect any startling revelations from the FCA because these topics have been well documented.
However ……..
…….. the fact that the FCA feels that workshops are necessary suggests that they remain concerned about standards. Recent RDR thematic reviews have highlighted significant non-compliance, while the potential mis-use of CIPs and switching into CIPs poses significant risk for consumers.
The workshops therefore provide the opportunity to hear directly from the horse’s mouth and to see examples of good (and poor) practice.
For a list of dates and venues click here. Further information is available here and here.



FCA announce delay to multi-factor authentication
Richard Foster Compliance FCA, protection, Update
We wrote a few weeks ago about incoming changes to how firms access their FCA systems to upgrade data protection. You can read that article here. The new system will replace the current 6-digit passcode with the user needing to log in using a One Time Passcode (OTP). The implementation date of 20th January […]