Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will consult on proposals to make information available on a wider range of individuals at authorised firms. In July 2017, the FCA published proposals to extend the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) to almost all regulated firms. Under these proposals, the FCA...
FCA and ICO publish joint update on GDPR...
Transparency at renewal As everyone will remember, the FCA’s ‘Transparency at Renewal’ rules came in effect on 1st April 2017. This brought in requirements such as showing the expiring terms as well as the renewal terms and advising the clients to ‘shop around’ if they had...
CP1723 - IDD CP 2, the FCA's second consultation paper on new rule changes - Sep 17...
The Enterprise Act 2016 The Enterprise Act was given royal assent on 4 May 2016 and inserts a new section (Section 13a) into the existing Insurance Act. It will apply to new policies governed by UK law, which are issued (or re-issued) after 4 May...
The IDD is the biggest change to insurance rules since the FCA (then the FSA) first provided us with ‘rules’ in 2005, if you want to have your say PLEASE ensure you provide your thoughts and feedback to the FCA by 5 JUNE 2017 ...
Please find attached a summary of the proposed legislation, as issued by the ICO in their recent consultancy paper. It is possible that further amendments may be made following a review of the feedback, and it will be interesting to see what the final...
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is an independent non-ministerial government department, responsible for carrying out investigations in to mergers, markets and the regulated industries, as well as enforcing competition and consumer law. In September 2016 the CMA launched its study in to digital comparison tools(DCT)...