12 Dec, 2024 Advice Guidance Boundary Review: FCA consults on a proposed new regime of targeted support for pensions By Premlata Fagan As promised in its feedback statement to its Advice Guidance Boundary proposals (set out in DP 23/5), the FCA has published its first...
12 Dec, 2024 Financial Regulation Legal Outlook 2025 By Stephen Clipsham Our Financial Regulation Outlook 2025 report explores the key regulatory developments that we expect to see in the Banking, Asset...
21 Nov, 2024 FCA sets out next steps for “Advice Guidance Boundary Review” By Premlata Fagan In December 2023, the government and the FCA put forward proposals to improve how people can access help with their investments...
07 Nov, 2024 FCA sets out the regulatory framework for pensions dashboard service firms By Premlata Fagan The FCA has today published its long awaited Policy Statement PS24/15 and its final handbook rules and guidance setting out the...
08 Oct, 2024 FCA announces advice market consolidation review and other key priorities in dear CEO letter By Premlata Fagan It has been a while since the FCA last looked in detail at consolidation, but a Dear CEO letter sent to financial advisers and investment...
21 Mar, 2024 FCA publishes findings on how firms provide retirement income advice (firms providing personal recommendations on investments should also take note) By Premlata Fagan On 20th March, the FCA published a report on the outcomes of its thematic review (TR 24/1) on retirement income advice. In this report,...
12 Apr, 2023 FCA Business Plan 2023/24 - takeaways for insurance and pension providers By Jimi Piggott-Bader Amid a challenging and changing market backdrop - from cost of living pressures and heightened operational resilience risks, to the UK...
11 Aug, 2022 FCA consults on changes to redress framework for pension transfer advice By Jimi Piggott-Bader The FCA has opened a consultation (CP22/15) into redress calculations for customers who suffer financial loss following a DB to DC...
21 Feb, 2022 Up close and personal - FCA proposes new rules to connect personal pensions to dashboards By Jimi Piggott-Bader There is an episode of I'm Alan Partridge where Steve Coogan's eponymous anti-hero calls his estranged wife to offer an unsolicited...
27 Oct, 2021 Illiquid nourishment: FCA finalises rules for introduction of long-term asset funds By Jimi Piggott-Bader The FCA has finalised its framework for a new type of regulated open-ended investment fund: long-term asset funds. LTAFs are designed to...
07 Jun, 2021 Clear as clay - FCA clarifies costs and charges data disclosure for workplace pension providers By Jimi Piggott-Bader One of the more innocuous curiosities at this year's French Open, which comes to a head this week, was seeing Roger Federer - who at...
13 May, 2021 Wise up: FCA to require pension providers to offer Pension Wise sessions for savers By Jimi Piggott-Bader It's little over seven years since the then-Chancellor set out radical reforms to the pension system to give savers more choice and...