CPD WEBINAR – Critical financial rules for GI brokers’ FCA compliance
This comprehensive and interactive webinar will focus on the critical financial aspects of FCA rules – overall business solvency (compliance with adequate resources Threshold Condition 2.4), professional indemnity requirements/limits/issues (incl Covid cover) and the onerous client money handling rules under CASS 5.
The FCA has had deep concern with brokers’ financial resilience and has issued several surveys on this plus client money handling arrangements culminating with the Dear CEO letter of 30 September 2020.
Learning Objectives
What are the FCA’s concerns – the financial resilience and client money surveys;
Solvency and meeting adequate resources TC2.4;
Professional Indemnity Insurance – issues and limits;
CASS 5 – what is client money, how Risk Transfer can go wrong, what are monies held at third parties and what actually do you need to do to comply (incl audits).
It is relevant to general insurance brokers/intermediaries, their insurers and any other market participants.
About the speaker:
Branko Bjelobaba FCII has worked for 32 years across the sector and latterly at PwC and GISC and has led his own consultancy practice for 16 years. He works closely with BIBA (and has published its compliance manual since 2004) and the CII and has provided many well-received (even entertaining!) training events throughout the UK. He is a recipient of the Thomson Reuters Compliance Personality of the Year Award and the London Market People Award for Legal and Compliance.
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