Financial Promotions Case Studies
The FCA has produced two short videos of the various products it regulates, and the common mistakes firms make while promoting their products. The videos illustrate the FCA’s expectation and highlight the need for promotions to be clear, fair and not misleading regardless of the media used. These videos, as well as other information about financial promotions, can be found here.
Consumer Vulnerability Webinars
The FCA’s recent Consumer Vulnerability and Consumer Duty Webinars are available to view on demand.
Watch Consumer Vulnerability to learn about the regulator’s Vulnerability Guidance and the role firms play in ensuring customers are treated fairly.
Watch Consumer Duty to learn about what the Duty would require of firms and what outcomes consumers should be able to expect from financial products and services.
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 […]