Why tamper-proofing your data will keep the FSA at bay

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Mark Palmer, director of products and marketing at Invu, reveals how advisers can reduce costs, automate RDR compliance and, critically, improve competitive position by using effective data storage.

While RDR will not be implemented until January 2013, both providers and financial advisers need to give serious thought to the implications of the changing regulatory climate. This new regulatory model is designed to improve confidence and trust in the financial services market with greater transparency to support the new fee based approach. And, at the heart of RDR is good client information: IFAs need not only to record and store all client information, including growing volumes of email based information, in an efficient manner but, critically, be able to rapidly search all those ...

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