FCA produce another Consultation Paper and want comments by 28th May 2021. But not just any Consultation Paper, A VERY SIGNIFICANT CONSULTATION PAPER.

From the 1st April there are changes to the incentives on offer for apprenticeships.

From July 2022 the FCA will be regulating Funeral plans. What does the regulator expect from firms and what do they need to be doing to prepare?

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So the countdown to Brexit is over, but the discussions and negotiations are still far from complete, especially for financial services.

The final day of the Brexit countdown. We touch on some useful resources to help keep you up to date with last minute changes and the regulators expectations on firms.

Final 10 days left before the end of the transition period. We highlight some things to be keeping an eye on over the last few days.

Brexit countdown reaches 16 days to go. What should you be expecting come the 1st January?

The final countdown is here… We take another look at the key things the industry should be preparing for regarding Brexit.

Our 5th Brexit blog is out with a month and a half to go. There is more clarity emerging over what is expected of financial services come New Years Day.

The CII have announced they are bringing an end to gap-fill for advisers to achieve their SPS. This will be coming into effect from August 2021.

Brexit plans and notifications continue to be issued and can’t get lost in all the noise. The FCA has issued a couple of documents that deserve some attention, we take a look in our latest short article.

As Brexit negotiations continue we take a quick look at the Financial Services bill that was introduced in Parliament last week and the ‘Dear CEO’ letter from the regulators to insurance firms.

The FCA have released a new explainer video giving guidance to firms regarding their preparation for the Certification regime and the conduct rules. It appears the FCA believes that firms are still not as prepared as they were expecting them to be at this stage.

We look at two important announcements for you to consider amongst the flood of news coming our way at the moment.

How has Covid-19 impacted on the industries response to the FCA’s CP/32 from December 2019, looking for responses around operational resilience? Originally asking for feedback by April 2020, you may have thought it would be well into 2021 before needing to act on any final rules and, that would have been a fair observation, if not for the seismic impact of Covid-19.

In light of all that has happened in the last 12 months and the end of the transitional period of UK leaving Europe, it should come as no surprise that the FCA have issued a Discussion Paper on the future of regulatory oversight of Investment firms including Asset managers.

With the release of the findings from the FCA’s Asset Management Market Study on the 18/11/16. We take a look at what this could mean for the industry moving forward.