by Kenneth Underhill | Apr 14, 2019 | FCA, ICSR News, Insurance Distribution Directive
What’s it all about? The FCA has been concerned with value being provided to consumers for some time, with various market studies, thematic reviews and pilots being conducted by the FCA since it was created. The Consultation Paper covering Value Measures issued in...
by Kenneth Underhill | Feb 25, 2019 | FCA, ICSR News, Insurance Distribution Directive
The IDD came into effect for insurers and intermediaries in the UK on the 1st of October last year. 2019 sees two regulatory bodies interested in whether businesses have properly implemented the IDD. Lloyd’s will this month commence a Thematic Review of whether...
by Kenneth Underhill | Sep 27, 2018 | FCA, Insurance Distribution Directive, Kenneth Underhill, Product Governance
Having covered Product Governance in our first Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) Deep Dive and Customer Information and IPIDs in our second Article this article, our third and final in the series, will focus on the new Customer Best Interests Rule and what it may...
by Kenneth Underhill | Sep 6, 2018 | Insurance Distribution Directive, Kenneth Underhill
Having covered Product Governance in our first Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) Deep Dive, this article, our second in the series, will focus on the changes in provision of information to customers and the Insurance Product Information Document (IPID) and what...
by Kenneth Underhill | Aug 15, 2018 | Insurance Distribution Directive, Kenneth Underhill, Product Governance
This article is the first in our series on the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) due to come into force in the UK on 1st October 2018. Our approach is to not just raise for our customers and others the fact of new regulation, but also to give insight into issues...
by Kenneth Underhill | Jun 19, 2018 | Brexit, FCA, ICSR News, Insurance Distribution Directive, Senior Managers and Certification Regime
Businesses should by now be in the final stages of cleaning up the contractual arrangements needed to comply with GDPR having got their policies and procedures approved and operational. There may also still be some IT work underway depending on the size and complexity...