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.



SM&CR training
Alistair MacDougall Compliance FCA, SM&CR
During a recent workshop, the FCA commented on SM&CR training. They do not believe that some e-learning or short generic training meets their requirements. We believe that this is primarily a reference to the need for all staff to understand the intention of the SM&CR to move firms to a culture of accountability at all […]