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Consumer Duty Hub

Professional Adviser’s Consumer Duty Hub is your home for the latest news, analysis, and expert opinion on how The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Consumer Duty will impact advisers and their businesses.

This is where you can find all the updates on what to expect as each deadline approaches, and how you can best prepare your firm to align with the watchdog’s new rules.

Andrew Goodwin: Five steps towards advice for everyone

Andrew Goodwin: Five steps towards advice for everyone

Your profession

Andrew Goodwin

15 October 2026 • 5 min read

FCA crackdown leads 24 CFD firms to cease operating since 2025

Regulation

FCA crackdown leads 24 CFD firms to cease operating since 2025

Misuse of authorisation

25 September 2026 • 1 min read

Regulation is changing shape - what do advisers need to do about it?

Regulation

Regulation is changing shape - what do advisers need to do about it?

Five themes, one direction of travel

18 September 2026 • 5 min read

The data quality gap wealth managers can see but haven't yet closed

Your Business

The data quality gap wealth managers can see but haven't yet closed

Five common elements for achieving high-quality data

15 September 2026 • 4 min read

FCA: Simplified advice rules update imminent; MPS review outcome set for 2027

Regulation

FCA: Simplified advice rules update imminent; MPS review outcome set for 2027

Regulator's Kate Tuckley gives update

08 September 2026 • 3 min read

Half of advisers use technology for Consumer Duty compliance

Technology

Half of advisers use technology for Consumer Duty compliance

Advisers not aware of digital tools that can help

04 September 2026 • 2 min read

AI and compliance: Charging for advice or administration?

Regulation

AI and compliance: Charging for advice or administration?

Efficiency doesn't remove accountability

03 September 2026 • 3 min read

Proving good customer outcomes still a challenge for financial planners

Regulation

Proving good customer outcomes still a challenge for financial planners

Firms face practical challenges in Consumer Duty board reporting

03 September 2026 • 2 min read

FCA calls on young adults to check for unclaimed child trust funds

Your profession

FCA calls on young adults to check for unclaimed child trust funds

760,000 child trust funds remain unclaimed

01 September 2026 • 2 min read

Paul Bruns: Ongoing review flexibility and the advice gap

Regulation

Paul Bruns: Ongoing review flexibility and the advice gap

Changes are still currently only at proposal stage

10 August 2026 • 5 min read

An adviser wants to leave. Should you let them?

Your Business

An adviser wants to leave. Should you let them?

'It's every advice business owner's nightmare'

05 August 2026 • 5 min read

Boring Money's Holly Mackay: Consumer Duty's next big challenge three years in

Consumer Duty

Boring Money's Holly Mackay: Consumer Duty's next big challenge three years in

From value to understanding

03 August 2026 • 5 min read

How considering vegetable peelers can inform your product design

Regulation

How considering vegetable peelers can inform your product design

FCA released two reports to mark the third birthday of Consumer Duty

31 July 2026 • 4 min read

Sandy McGregor: Happy third birthday to Consumer Duty

Consumer Duty

Sandy McGregor: Happy third birthday to Consumer Duty

Third anniversary of landmark regulation on 31 July

31 July 2026 • 1 min read

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