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In July the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) proposed creating a new Directory to help consumers and firms check the status and history of individuals working in financial services. Many see this as an improvement on the original proposal that post-SMCR only senior managers would be included.
The German Weimar Republic did it in the 1920’s, Zimbabwe did it in the 2000’s and countless other countries since. Both of these though caused hyperinflation in the 000%. They called it printing money we call it Quantitative Easing.
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) and cyber security are interwoven. But do your updated data privacy policies and procedures reflect this? The GDPR deadline may have passed yet the cyber risk remains. Data protection starts with building cyber resilience in your people. Thank goodness GDPR is done with. Right?
So, the most spoken about piece of legislation in many years has finally arrived. GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) is here and we all have to readjust to a world where the need to handle data more carefully is more important than ever.
Ask a dozen economists about the state of the global economy and you are likely to get 12 different answers. The same seems to be true of the Government’s campaign and incentive to create thousands of ‘new’ Apprenticeships nationwide.
Melanie Hind, the Financial Reporting Council’s executive director for audit and actuarial regulation, discusses the differences in responsibility that a business’s auditor and accountant hold by Bethan Rees Republished with permission from the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI).
I’ve talked in recent articles about the impact of higher transfer values on people living in Port Talbot and Redcar, and in the British Steel Pension Scheme. Around March last year, those transfer values in some cases doubled. Why? There were two reasons.
A hundred years ago British women battled for and won the electoral vote through the Representation of the People Act of 1918. The Act granted the vote to men over the age of 21 and women over the age of 30 who met property criteria.
Do your staff, or clients’ staff ever worry about money? If so, you’re in good company: Financial stress costs the UK economy £120.7 billion, and 17.5 million hours were lost because of absence from financial stress (Neyber 2016).
Ashley Long FCSI, partner and CFO at GMT Communications, outlines some key developments in private equity Republished with permission from the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI). We entered 2017 with the twin unknowns of a Trump presidency and Brexit and they continue to cast shadows of uncertainty and risk.
I have recently been involved with some Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) funds, which is a departure from my usual duties with IFA firms. That is one of the joys of working freelance.
This article explores the relationship between IFAs and defined benefit schemes, one that has historically been uneasy. It argues that the polarisation of opinion between IFAs who see pensions as “pots” of wealth, and those who regard them as a “wage for life” has never been stronger.
