
Discover the FCA consumer duty framework, who is in scope, and how to deliver the four outcomes and cross-cutting rules with a health check framework, evidence, and annual board attestation.
Learn the three cross-cutting rules of consumer duty: act in good faith, avoid foreseeable harm, and enable customers to pursue their financial objectives, mindful of vulnerabilities and expectations.
Identify and implement the four consumer duty outcomes—product and services, price and value, consumer understanding, and consumer support—through governance, fair value assessments, and transparent communications.
Assure the quality of your products and services to meet consumer duty requirements by establishing product governance arrangements. Identify the target market, choose distribution channels, and monitor performance.
Assess fair value of pricing by evaluating relevant data, gathering distribution chain information, and benchmarking against similar products to ensure price reflects benefits and life cycle costs.
Learn to assure the quality of consumer understanding across the customer journey with a ten-question framework to provide right information at the right time for informed decisions and attestation evidence.
Learn how to act on testing results to improve customer communications. Build evidence by testing messages for customers with vulnerability, measure effectiveness, and support the annual consumer duty attestation.
Learn to ensure consistent, effective customer communications across channels, test them regularly, monitor impact with data and mri or feedback, and document the evidence for the annual consumer duty attestation.
Assess and improve consumer support quality by setting lifecycle-based targets across channels, testing outcomes, and addressing vulnerability, with templates and annual reporting under the consumer duty.
Learn how to use data and feedback to monitor consumer support outcomes, set monitoring frequency, oversee outsourced providers with service-level agreements, and support consumer duty board attestation and annual report.
The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) new Consumer Duty regulations is having a significant impact on the UK Financial Services industry.
The Consumer Duty came into force for live products and services on 31st July 2023 (for closed book products the Duty comes into force on 31st July 2024) – it is the means by which the FCA will regulate the interactions of in-scope firms with retail (individual and SME) clients.
How should your business respond to the new FCA Consumer Duty regulations?
How can you assure the quality of your compliance efforts?
Can your business derive competitive advantage from the way it chooses to comply with the new Consumer Duty regulations?
If you own, run, work in, or are a director of a UK Financial Services company – this course will help you answer these (and many more) Consumer Duty questions; and provide you with all of the tools necessary to implement a robust Consumer Duty Quality Assurance Framework into your business.
So, if you are involved with (as an employee; owner; director; advisor; supplier; customer, etc.) financial services businesses such as:
§ Payments Firms;
§ E-wallet Providers;
§ Wealth Managers;
§ Stockbrokers;
§ Banks;
§ Personal Investment Firms (PIF’s);
§ Building Societies;
§ Insurance Brokers;
§ Mortgage Providers;
§ Mortgage Brokers;
§ Insurance Underwriters;
§ Investment Advisors;
§ Or any other regulated firm operating in the UK providing financial products or services to retail customers;
and you want to learn more about the challenges and opportunities the new Consumer Duty presents – this course is for you.