The amount of compensation that the FSCS can award is complicated and varies depending on the product type.
As such, the links below are informative and provide for useful reference.
Guide to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
Link to the FSCS Products website. Use the menu on the left hand side to navigate to detailed information about different product types.
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For reference and for validating the information that must be provided in your disclosure documentation.
New disclosure rules that were intended to take effect from January 2017 have been put back one year.
Does your firm have sufficiently robust systems and controls, policies and procedures and governance in place to mitigate financial crime?
Are you completing your RMAR correctly?
If you have clients with overseas income or assets you might need to notify them of HMRC requirements.
P2P permissions – action required by 31 December 2016
Alistair MacDougall Compliance 2016
If you do not advise on P2P agreements, you need to consider whether you should remove this permission.