I help a lot of senior managers prepare for interview by the Prudential Regulation Authority (the PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA). Indications from both regulators are that authorisation will become a more onerous process, with fewer successful applicants. I expect senior managers regime interviews for approval to carry out a senior manager […]
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Preparing for SMF interviews
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The new Consumer Duty
Key points: The proposed new Consumer Duty represents a step-change in regulation and firms need to start planning now; there’s a lot to do in what’s probably a tight timescale. Although most firms will have documented outcomes-based measures, more granularity is likely to be needed and there are significant dependencies and interconnectedness between the proposed […]
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Tagged consumer duty, Consumer Principle, CP21/13, cross-cutting rules, DP21/1, duty of care, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, protected characteristics, vulnerable customers
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Diversity and inclusion and retail customers
For retail customers …, firms need to be sufficiently diverse and inclusive to understand and meet the needs of their diverse customer bases; otherwise their customers are at more risk of harm. So say the Financial Conduct Authority, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Bank of England in their July 2021 discussion paper, DP21/1 Diversity […]
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Diversity and inclusion and governance
One of the key messages in discussion paper DP21/1 Diversity and inclusion in the financial sector – working together to drive change, issued in July 2021 by the Financial Conduct Authority, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Bank of England, is the importance of governance in delivering the diversity and inclusion agenda. On one level, […]
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Diversity and inclusion in financial services
The Financial Conduct Authority, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Bank of England issued discussion paper DP21/1 in July 2021: Diversity and inclusion in the financial sector – working together to drive change. This is early-stage, but very serious, thinking to improve diversity and inclusion in the financial services sector and it is clear that […]