by Kenneth Underhill | Sep 6, 2024 | Appointed Representatives, Blueprint Two, Brokers, Climate Change, Compliance, Consumer Duty, Digital, Enterprise Risk Management, Environmental Social and Governance, Fair value, FCA, HR, Insurers, IT, Lloyd's, Multi Occupancy Buildings Insurance, Operational Resilience, Operations, Pricing, Product Governance, Prudential Regulation Authority, Risk, Solvency, Vulnerable customers
The latest edition of Horizons, our quarterly report for senior leaders across compliance, risk and regulatory roles within insurance firms is now available. You can download your copy of Horizons here.This edition covers:IntroductionThe Longer-term HorizonQ3 2024...
by Kenneth Underhill | Mar 19, 2024 | Appointed Representatives, Blueprint Two, Brokers, Climate Change, Compliance, Consumer Duty, Culture, Digital, Enterprise Risk Management, Environmental Social and Governance, Fair value, FCA, HR, ICSR News, Insurers, IT, Kenneth Underhill, Lloyd's, Multi Occupancy Buildings Insurance, Operational Resilience, Operations, Pricing, Product Governance, Prudential Regulation Authority, Risk, Solvency, Vulnerable customers
The latest edition of Horizons, our quarterly report for senior leaders across compliance, risk and regulatory roles within insurance firms is now available. This edition covers:IntroductionThe Longer-term HorizonQ1 2024 Issues: GeneralFinancial Services Future...
by Kenneth Underhill | Apr 25, 2023 | Consumer Duty, Culture, Environmental Social and Governance, FCA, Financial Crime, Operational Resilience, Product Governance, Senior Managers and Certification Regime, Vulnerable customers
The FCA Business Plan sets the regulatory agenda for regulated insurance firms in the coming 12 months. Released on 5th April 2023, the current plan has a strong focus on the way the FCA uses the Threshold Conditions to instil confidence in consumers. For 2023/4 there...
by Kenneth Underhill | Nov 9, 2020 | Culture, FCA, Governance, Pricing, Product Governance, Senior Managers and Certification Regime, Vulnerable customers
Amongst many new obligations placed on insurers and insurance brokers by the FCA, as it grapples with meeting its objective of preventing harm to consumers resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, is a requirement that product manufacturers review the value that their...
by Kenneth Underhill | Nov 3, 2020 | Brexit, Climate Change, Culture, FCA, Governance, Pricing, Vulnerable customers
If you have started thinking about which areas your board might be interested in focusing on in 2021, then please read on. We’ve spent a lot of our time in 2020 reading the minutiae of detail in FCA Business Plans, Consultation Papers, Guidance Notes and Policy...
by Nicky Hasler | Nov 2, 2020 | Coronavirus, FCA, Vulnerable customers
The FCA have provided guidance on the measures they expect firms who offer insurance and premium finance to take as part of the support package provided to customers experiencing financial difficulties because of coronavirus.This guidance includes only very minor...