We have received the following update from the FCA;
As communicated on 26 October, we will incrementally publish Directory Persons data from solo-regulated firms from 14 December. In preparation for this, there will be outages for the following systems between 6pm, 11 December and 8am 14 December 2020.
- Financial Services Register;
- The Application Programming Interface (API); and
- Connect – in addition, we will be restricting Directory Persons submissions via Connect from 5pm on Thursday, 10 December.
We will be adding outage notification messages to Connect (Log-in page and ‘Latest News’ section in the application), API and the FS Register.



Have you advised on British Steel pension transfers? Action required!
Paul Jay Compliance 2016, 2018, FCA, Pension, Pension Transfer, protection, transfer
Firms who have advised clients to transfer away from the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) should be well acquainted with the content of PS22/14 by now … … but some don’t seem to be aware that they need to have completed some key activity for clients in scope of the redress scheme. The BSPS […]