The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) is now reported to be getting involved in advertising for financial services products. This will be good news to the FCA who have been struggling to get financial services advertising brought within the scope of the online harms bill going through parliament and have been relying on goodwill from the […]
We will be closing the Office from Tuesday 21st December and re-opening on Wednesday 5th January. If you need to contact us over the Christmas and New Year period please drop Christina an e mail christina@ccfps.co.uk all e mails will be regularly checked over the holidays. If you need to call you can contact either […]
Here’s Some of the latest news stories from around the financial services market, from your friendly Pension Advisers at CCFPS: In a survey of financial advisors by Quliter (November 21), two thirds said that the fear of further Covid-19 variants, like the latest Omicron variant, was the most important factor for financial markets into 2022. […]
The Office of Public Guardians (OPG) has revealed that the number of Lasting Powers of Attorney (LPA’s) has fallen for the first time. Figures released last week (29/11/21) showed that the number of LPA’s registered fell to 636,828 for the 12 months to tax year end in April 2021. That is over 220,000 less than […]
The Financial Conduct Authority has announced (7th December 21) that it will be introducing a new Customer Charter into financial services by April 2023. They have been consulting on a potential change to the rules since July and although the consultation period runs until February, they have now announced that they will be pressing ahead […]
The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has expressed its concerns to the Financial Conduct Authority, that too many regulated financial advice firms are also registered as Claims Management Companies (CMC’s). It is four years now since the FCA took over regulation of CMC’s and its latest reports show that over fifty firms have both permissions. The […]
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