In March 2019 the FCA published PS19/8 to increase the ombudsman service’s award limit from £150,000 to £350,000 for complaints
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The FCA is devoting a great deal of weight to its upcoming Consumer Duty regulations. These will be finalised in
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Platforms play a big part in the investment process of most UK firms. According to Defaqto, 94% of advisers place
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Even with all the deferrals of deadlines around implementation of the SMCR as a result of COVID, firms should now
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One of our clients recently asked this ‘easy’ question. “We are a limited company but the firm is
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It has been well publicised that the FCA has aimed increasingly close scrutiny in the direction of firms that have
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One of the issues identified in the FCA’s Asset Management Market Study was a lack of competition among fund providers
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It is likely that all our readers have heard of cryptocurrency, probably in the guise of Bitcoin. This cryptocurrency and
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Well, 21 March has come and gone and, while it is presumed that the EU’s new disclosure rules around sustainable
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The FCA has made the following announcement about the FOS award limit. “When we increased the Financial Ombudsman Service’s award
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