With Consumer Duty requirements set to take effect in Q2 2023 and ahead of the final rules being published –
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We have covered regulatory requirements around replacement business, more commonly referred to as switch business, before. As this appears to
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Back in June 2020, the FCA published an ‘advice checker’ to help consumers assess whether pension transfer advice they had
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Policy Statement PS 20-06 stated that a firm providing pension transfer advice “… may also not charge less than it
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The FCA has published a Thematic Review report which provides some observations around the quality of wind-down planning in firms.
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The FCA’s proposed Consumer Duty is getting a lot of airplay in the trade media. First mooted in the FCA’s
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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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We recently reviewed a pension transfer report where the client was recommended to transfer out of the defined benefit scheme
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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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Readers will be aware that, following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the UK Government, together with other countries, has
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