Platform pointers: Five handy due diligence tips

No doubt you have seen the recent FCA review of the platform due diligence undertaken by firms. And no doubt you have also seen the criticism of said review. The scope of the review was very limited; it seems to us that they had stated they were going to do a review, it ended up being extremely late (originally due to start in November 2014) and so something was quickly cobbled together and pushed out there as a way of ticking it off someone's to-do list. We're not the only ones to think this way, and the industry has been quite vocal in their criticism of this review. Mostly be...