Implementing SM&CR for solo-regulated insurance businesses – Part 3: Developing your HR processes
In this 3rd article on SM&CR for solo-regulated firms we will be focusing on the HR processes that your firm should be developing now, in order to have them implemented by the commencement date which is now just five months away.
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Bridging The Gap: Distribution Chains and FCA Expectations
Since the issue of the FCAs’ papers on value in the distribution chain in April this year ICSR has been involved in a number of discussions and debates with clients and others about what the impact is on current practice and how firms can meet their obligations. Kenneth Underhill explores the issues.
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Intelligent Insurer – an Interview With Kenneth Underhill
“Regulatory and Compliance changes: how to cope” – An interview with Kenneth Underhill.
Read the full interview.
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Implementing SM&CR for solo-regulated insurance businesses – Part 2: Six tasks to be starting now
This is the second in our series of Senior Mangers & Certification Regime (SM&CR) articles that we will be releasing in the run up to the 9 December 2019 commencement date. Our first article, which was published last month, looked at four fundamental elements...
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Implementing SM&CR for solo-regulated insurance businesses – Part 1: Four fundamental elements
This is the first in a series of Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SM&CR) articles that ICSR will be releasing in the run up to the 9 December 2019 commencement date for solo-regulated Firms.
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London Legal Support Trust Charity Walk
The ICSR team is participating this year in the London Legal Walk on 17th June in London and we are hoping that our friends, clients and contacts will either join us or sponsor us.
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Part VII, Cross Border Merger or Other Brexit Solution?
Despite all of the work undertaken by firms to manage and oversee the implementation of their Brexit solutions and the regulatory oversight involved in obtaining consent we are seeing a trend involving increased scrutiny resulting from these reorganisations.
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Embedding the ethos of SM&CR – How to deliver genuine cultural change
ICSR Director Kenneth Underhill will be joining Lucinda Carney at Actus for a webinar on 14th May titled “Embedding the ethos of SMCR – How to deliver genuine cultural change”. Register to join us.
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The FCA’s Latest Warning: Value, Pricing, the GI Distribution Chain and the Customers’ Best Interest Rule
The Latest FCA thematic review report, “General Insurance Distribution Chain”, is a culmination of two simultaneous but separate reviews. ICSR Senior Consultant Craig Umbleja has been looking at the effect of these.
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ICSR and RiskScreen Strategic Working Relationship
ICSR has entered into a strategic working relationship with KYC Global supporting the implementation of RiskScreen, their simple, powerful and cost-effective Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening & client lifecycle risk management technology solution within the...
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FCA Consultation Paper CP19/8 – GI Value and Value Measures
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. Senior Consultant Craig Umbleja explores the issues for the insurance market.
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Brexit Update
Until last week the Brexit date was the 29th of March and the arrangements which the PRA and FCA have developed for hard and soft Brexit provided a degree of stability. A new Brexit date has been agreed with the EU which would see an extension to the date on which Brexit would take place.
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