This month’s edition of Regulation round-up discusses: the consultation to extend SM&CR to all financial services firms; the Threshold Conditions Team taking enforcement action and cancelling the authorisations of 207 firms; FCA’s agenda and priorities for consumer credit; contingency planning for firms that do not have their MIFID II permissions in place by 3 January […]
The FCA has today announced that it will soon be launching a campaign to inform people of the 29 August 2019 deadline for making a complaint about PPI. The campaign will contribute to the regulatory and supervisory work the FCA has already done around PPI and will continue to do. The campaign, which will be […]
Background A corrigendum to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/653 of 8 March 2017 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 on key information documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) by laying down regulatory technical standards (RTS) with regard to the presentation, content, review and revision of key information documents and the conditions for fulfilling […]
Sabine Lautenschläger, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB, talks about developments in the preparatory work of banks and supervision in light of the UK leaving the European Union, Supervision Newsletter (Summer 2017) In summary, Lautenschläger said that: all affected banks should prepare themselves with […]
This week FOS published its regular newsletter in which it discussed: a rise in consumer credit complaints; statistics on complaints received in the first quarter of 2017/2018; and an update on PPI and the FCA’s new rules and guidance FOS’ Annual Review The annual review published earlier in the summer by FOS identified that complaints about […]
The European Commission has published a regulation laying down a standardised presentation format for the insurance product information document (IPID) to comply with IDD. The IDD must be transposed into national law by 28 February 2018 and the IPID must be provided to customers with the necessary information about non-life insurance products in order to […]
HM Treasury has published a report on the progress made during 2016 on the original 26 recommendations put forwards by the Insurance Fraud Taskforce. The Taskforce was set up to investigate the causes of fraudulent behaviour and recommend solutions to reduce the level of insurance fraud in order to ultimately lower costs and protect the […]
We have written an article on the Government’s statement of intent for the Data Protection Bill.
The BoE’s non-executive directors have published a review of its approach to identifying and managing conflicts of interest within the BoE set up. There will be an update to the Bank’s Code of Conduct to update and clarify requirements. Among changes will be the appointment of a designated Conflicts Officer, together with other organisational and technological […]
Nicky Morgan, new Chair of the Treasury Committee, and Sam Woods of PRA have exchanged letters on Brexit planning. The PRA response explained PRA’s work in assessing the scenarios that might have the biggest impact on its objectives – such as a hard Brexit with no ongoing cross-border market access. PRA has received over 400 […]
