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.



Pension transfer advice – assessing transfer risk
Alistair MacDougall Compliance 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, DBAAT, Drawdown, FCA, Pension, Pension Transfer, PI, transfer
It has been well publicised that the FCA has aimed increasingly close scrutiny in the direction of firms that have been providing advice in relation to defined benefit pension transfers. Apparently caught off guard by the then Chancellor’s introduction in the Pension Schemes Act 2015 of what are generally called ‘pension freedoms’, the regulator has […]