The FCA has announced a new series of monthly Q&A roundtable discussions for mortgage intermediaries and lenders across the UK, with the first stop in Glasgow on 29 October. There is no set agenda for these sessions; topics for discussion are determined by the attendees at each session.
These informal monthly ‘Ask the regulator’ events will conclude in March 2020.
Details of the dates and venues can be found in the registration page of the FCA website.



Pension Transfers – considering a workplace pension
Alistair MacDougall Compliance Defined Benefit, FCA, Pension, Pension Transfer, PI, Switch, transfer
We recently reviewed a pension transfer report where the client was recommended to transfer out of the defined benefit scheme into the client’s pre-existing SIPP. We considered that the recommendation to transfer appeared to be appropriate. However, the client had what the FCA calls an ‘available qualifying scheme’, more commonly referred to as a […]