For IFAs and Mortgage Brokers
FCA rules and guidance state that “Firms should ensure that those supervising employees ……. have the necessary coaching and assessment skills ….. to act as a competent supervisor and assessor.”
It is important therefore that firms can demonstrate that they meet the FCA’s rules and guidance in this respect, particularly those firms who have not yet been subject to the FCA Business Risk Awareness assessments.
ATEB provides training to address this need; details of our next scheduled Supervisory Training Workshop are shown below.
- Date: Thursday 25th September;
- Location: Newcastle upon Tyne;
- Duration: All day;
- Cost: £200 plus VAT per person.
Content:
- Overview of general T&C requirements on regulated firms;
- Setting customer facing sales process standards;
- Consistent and accurate assessment skills;
- Theory of coaching and training;
- Training Needs Analysis completion;
- Constructing SMARTA development plans;
- Structuring one to ones;
- Monitoring performance.
Joining Instructions:
- These will be issued 7-10 days prior to the workshop.
Only 16 places are available on each course and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Advising non-UK clients
Alistair MacDougall Compliance Conduct, EEA, email, EU, FCA, MiFID, passport, PI, vulnerable
Despite the fact that the UK ceased to be a member of the EU/EEA almost a year ago, we are still asked for advice around how a UK firm can take on a new non-UK client or continue to deal with such clients that the firm had pre-BREXIT. We have written before about the general […]