TCF

regulation

The FSA says it has found senior management often presents a "risk" to a firm's bid to meet its treating customers fairly (TCF) principles.

Four in ten fines meted out by the FSA now concern TCF breaches, according to research from Reynolds Porter Chamberlain.

As advisers get to grips with the principles-led legislation of TCF Kristen Paech takes a look at the challenges they have to face

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Progress from Royal Liver has launched a website to help adviser firms adopt the principles of TCF.

The Association of IFAs has leapt to the defence of smaller firms after an FSA report found a large portion of them to be failing to implement TCF.

The FSA says it is disappointed in the "sizeable" number of firms that failed to meet its March TCF deadline - and warns it will now intensify its focus on them.

It seems there are few in the industry willing to talk about it but a major regulatory deadline passed last Friday: firms' implementation date for the treating customers fairly (TCF) regime.