Carla Brown: No plans to deregister or merge PFS with CII

PFS president and chair on engagement, independence and a critical board meeting

Jen Frost
clock • 12 min read

There are no plans to deregister the Personal Finance Society (PFS) or merge it into the Chartered Insurance Institute, PFS chair and president Carla Brown has said amid concern and speculation that has followed a joint board meeting.

"It doesn't mean any of those things," Brown told PA. "It means that the PFS is going to remain as the PFS. "We have two very distinct arms, we have the PFS and we have general insurance, and they are very distinct professions. We are not talking about deregistration, we are not talking about merging. "We are talking about both parts working together collaboratively to give a better member outcome." Brown spoke to PA late on Thursday afternoon (21 May) from Belfast, where she had spent the day hosting a PFS Roadshow. This interview comes in the aftermath of a joint PFS and CII boar...

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