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.



Suitability reports – silver bullet, or not?
Paul Jay Compliance, Suitability DB Pension, FCA, MiFID, Pension, Pension Transfer, PI, transfer, Xplan
If you ask most advice firms which part of the advice process consumes the most time, most will reply: “Suitability Reports”. Based on the mammoth documents that some firms still produce, we can understand why. We do have some sympathy with firms though. On the one hand they’re told by the FCA that reports are […]