The Top Class Wednesday Update only likes the right sort of friction
My mind has gone to places it shouldn’t thanks to the latest on the advice / guidance boundary review. It seems the game’s a bogey and it’s back to the drawing board.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is £1,000 short
Right, let’s spoil the party with some new Consumer Duty stuff. The topic of value for money is going to be a battleground. And we need to talk about due diligence.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is easily distracted by squirrels
What’s exciting in the world of regulation this week? From my position behind the bird feeder it’s come from the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is deliberate, not careless
I mean we’ve all done it, right? You’re filling out your tax return, the Deliveroo guy comes to the door with your bao order and you miss out your £27 million offshore trust.
The Top Class Wednesday Update is worried about France in the quarter finals
Greetings. Hope you are all well. Mike here, keeping the TCWU wheel turning for another week. Big news from the FCA today, with the release of the snappily titled, “Broadening access to financial advice for mainstream investments” consultation paper. This is something that has been trailed for a while now, with Money Marketing reporting on […]
I’m a Top Class Wednesday Update get me out of here
Mr Polson is away this week, having indulged his guitar-playing Mr Hyde persona and most excellently tearing up the PFS Conference. For anyone who got too close, counselling is available. I’ll come to the pensions in a minute. But in the week we celebrate both the dark and the supernatural (and for some reason, pumpkins), […]
The FCA motivation behind Consumer Duty
The initiative formerly known as the New Consumer Duty, and now generally referred to as the Consumer Duty, was launched by the FCA with something of a fanfare in July. You might be putting the finishing touches on your firm’s implementation plan, or you might be about to fire up the coffee machine and roll […]
The Top Class Wednesday Update is on the edge
Hello again, welcome to your autumn but go easy on the heating. I have a couple of announcements this week, but the main one is that the Update is now denominated in dollars and so will cost you just a little more each month, but that’s a small price to pay for growth, amirite? Almost […]
How to survive Consumer Duty
Tom McPhail and Mike Barrett talk through the key issues from the 200-odd pages from the FCA’s Consumer Duty papers.
Consumer Duty: Cut out and keep guide
The FCA has published the final rules for the Consumer Duty, the implementation period has been confirmed, and it is over to you dear adviser/platform/asset manager/tech supplier (delete as appropriate) to make the necessary changes. The good news is, as you would expect, we’ve got your back. We’ve been busy with our own readiness program […]
