Where are you on the vulnerability and Consumer Duty roadmap
Understandably, advisers and firms are at different stages of Consumer Duty adoption. This episode looks at the progress within the financial services industry – with Tony and Andrew looking in depth at the different approaches to adoption. They also examine how different parts of the value chain are approaching Consumer Duty – and how this may introduce inconsistencies.
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Understanding the implications of vulnerability within Consumer Duty
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This paper examines the FCA Handbook Rules on Consumer Duty Regulations, specifically Principle 12. We extracted some key rules in order to explain the practical implications.
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What is a vulnerability?
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There is still a great deal of uncertainty about how someone is defined as vulnerable; what a vulnerability is. The FCA’s data (confirmed with live data from MorganAsh’s vulnerable consumer management tool, MARS) shows that around half of all people can be defined as vulnerable. Yet others say that they have only a few per cent of vulnerable consumers. Can this be true? Andrew Gething and Johnny Timpson OBE try to dig into the answers.
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Consumer vulnerability webinar: sharing vulnerability data – the pros and cons
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If vulnerable consumers must go through an assessment for every engagement with each services provider then it’s going to be pretty tiresome for them. It will make their lives worse, not better – in itself, a poor outcome. The recognised ideal is ‘tell us once’ – and this can only work where we can share vulnerability data.