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The Consumer Duty – the consumer understanding outcome

The proposed consumer understanding outcome rules might appear, on the face of them, to be less significant than the other consumer outcome rules. However, the FCA is clear in CP21/36, A new Consumer Duty: feedback to CP21/13 and further consultation (issued on 7 December 2021), that consumers can only be expected to take responsibility for […]

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The new Consumer Duty – an overview

A “significant change and a unique regulatory intervention” is how the Financial Conduct Authority describes its proposals for the new Consumer Duty in CP21/36, A new Consumer Duty: feedback to CP21/13 and further consultation, issued on 7 December 2021. That is almost certainly an understatement. CP21/36 – and particularly the draft guidance document at the […]

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