Compliance Insights Articles

Jun 10, 2019

Key Provisions for Debt Collection Firms in the Consumer Credit Sourcebook (CONC)

Last week’s article covered some of the key provisions in CONC for consumer credit firms with a focus on helping customers who are...

Key Provisions for Consumer Credit Firms in the Consumer Credit Sourcebook (CONC)

Robert Bell

Jun 4, 2019

Key Provisions for Consumer Credit Firms in the Consumer Credit Sourcebook (CONC)

To celebrate the launch of our CONC Guide, an easy to understand overview of CONC, I thought it would be useful to produce an overview of...

Financial Services Regulation Round-Up - March 2019

Robert Bell

Apr 9, 2019

Financial Services Regulation Round-Up - March 2019

As always, we aim to keep you right up to date with all matters to do with financial services compliance, as such we have produced a...

Robert Bell

Apr 2, 2019

Regulatory Horizon for 2019

In this article, we’ll take a look ahead at the upcoming regulatory changes over the next nine months of 2019. In the last two years,...

Dispute Resolution: Complaints in the FCA Handbook (DISP)

Victoria Bell

Mar 13, 2019

Dispute Resolution: Complaints in the FCA Handbook (DISP)

Following on from last week’s look at CONC, this week we’re going to examine DISP, the section of the FCA Handbook that sets out how...

Often Overlooked Key Areas of the Consumer Credit Sourcebook (CONC)

Robert Bell

Mar 7, 2019

Often Overlooked Key Areas of the Consumer Credit Sourcebook (CONC)

Although many of us feel confident we know the FCA’s Consumer Credit Sourcebook (CONC) inside and out, even I, as somebody who covers it...

FCA Authorisation Application in 5 Steps

Robert Bell

Feb 27, 2019

FCA Authorisation Application in 5 Steps

Most financial service providers and consumer credit firms must be authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority in order to operate and...

Victoria Bell

Dec 11, 2018

The CONC Sourcebook: An Overview

With the introduction of GDPR and next year’s roll-out of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime impacting upon the consumer credit...

FCA's Final Guidance and Rules on Staff Incentives and Remuneration in Consumer Credit

Victoria Bell

Apr 18, 2018

FCA's Final Guidance and Rules on Staff Incentives and Remuneration in Consumer Credit

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have published the final rules and guidance relating to staff incentives, remuneration and...

FCA's Proposed New 'Creditworthiness' Rules: What You Need To Know

Victoria Bell

Nov 21, 2017

FCA's Proposed New 'Creditworthiness' Rules: What You Need To Know

With Q4 well under way, it’s a good idea to have any upcoming FCA policy statements at the forefront of your planning for 2018. Consumer...

FCA's Proposed New Remuneration Code Rules

Victoria Bell

Aug 23, 2017

FCA's Proposed New Remuneration Code Rules

The Financial Conduct Authority has opened a consultation on how consumer credit firms should manage risks related to how they pay or...

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