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.



Financial Scams – Insuring the IFA’s Own Losses and the Client’s Losses
Steve Bailey Compliance PI
More and more stories are coming to light of fraudulent schemes continuing to evolve at an alarming rate (please see recent ATEB news articles). Vigilance across the whole firm is essential.