Consultation Paper from the FCA – An Investigation into Add-On Sales In December 2012, the FCA conducted a study into the sales of Add-Ons in General Insurance and other financial sectors. They followed this with a Market Study in July 2013 and published the findings...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its guidance on financial promotions in social media. This follows detailed engagement and consultation with the industry. The FCA recognises that social media are powerful channels of communication which are of significant value to firms and do not...
The FCA has conducted a thematic review into complaint handling against their current rules, and has now published its findings. The proposed changes affects all GI intermediaries. The FCA are proposing the following changes; All complaints are to be recorded and reported, regardless of resolved immediately or...
The Insurance Age wrote an article showing the Ombudsman reports fewer new cases in PPI and across car, motorcycle, buildings, travel and contents insurance. The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) received 48,516 complaints about payment protection insurance (PPI) in the three months to December 2014, compared to...
New rules which ban credit brokers from charging fees to customers, and from requesting customers' payment details unless they comply with new FCA requirements came into effect on the 2 January. Customers must now be given clear information about who they are dealing with, what...
Whilst it's not set in the stone, General insurance brokers will not have to pay the FSCS fee in the 2015/16 financial year. This is due to the substantial fall in claims and a high 'opening balance'. Possibly overcharging in previous years maybe, but every...
The FCA have issued the following update regarding consumer credit and a ‘one minute guide on credit broking’. Please ensure you are aware of these requirements. The FCA reminds credit broking firms of the rules We have identified a number of credit brokers that take fees from...
The FCA have issued the following guidance (please click on the link to view) regarding any ONA applications you might have in draft. Please ensure these are completed and submitted by 1st December 2014, otherwise you will lose your data. BMR Compliance Ltd – November 2014...
We have recently updated the Social Media Policy. Full, updated version of Policies is available in the Manual section of the Members Area. Login is Required....
Several trade press have ran the following article but we thought you should be made aware of this in case you haven’t already seen it. Fraudsters using 070 numbers have been targeting insurance brokers in order to con them out of money. The premium rate phone numbers...