The Single Financial Guidance Body (SFGB) was created to take over the obligations previously provided by three organisations, namely …
- The Money Advice Service
- The Pensions Advisory Service
- Pension Wise
… bringing together for the first time the provision of debt advice, money guidance and pensions guidance.
Initially launched on 1 January 2019, the body will formally commence under its new name of the Money and Pensions Service (probably to be referred to as MAPS) from 6 April 2019.
Further information can be found on the (SFGB) website.
The MAPS website will be here and is due for launch by 6 April.



Trust Registration Service – update
John Begg Compliance 2017, 2020, 2021, EU, ML, Pension, PI, Register, transfer, Update
New rules, transposing the Fifth Money Laundering Directive (5MLD) into UK law took effect on 10 January 2020. One impact of the rules was to broaden the scope of the Trust Registration Service (TRS) requirements. you can read more about 5MLD and TRS here. In brief, the previous rules required that all express trusts that […]