The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) yesterday published its Business Plan for 2018/19 that sets out the key priorities for the coming year.
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When the FCA launched its Mission, it committed to publishing a series of documents that would explain its approach to regulation in more depth. These articulate how the FCA carries out its main activities, aiming to provide transparency to its thought process and decision-making.
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Introduction: We publish our GDPR Unwrapped guide shortly, one key area covered is the GDPR adds new layers of data protection onto the existing Data Protection Act (DPA). One of the key areas that need focus are the client documents your firm has in place with your clients. These could be:
With much hype and a small amount of derision, we now await the financial services Pensions Dashboard project, due to deliver its pension aggregated information and transparency services to pension investors by 2019. Its role is to allow investors:
With The FCA now focusing on the implementation of MiFIDII and with the SMCR and GDPR also on the way, we are now seeing far more focus on disclosure, transparency, accountability, roles and responsibilities.
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This is our 3rd blog across Model Office’s (MO’s) 5 keys and we now focus on your service proposition that MO classes as ‘Your Promise’ that you are making to meet your on-going clients needs.