Skills Council to create compliance qualifications

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Compliance officers could soon be required to meet a new UK standard and formal qualifications, suggest plans unveiled by the Financial Services Skills Council.

At present, compliance officers hold a key position within financial services firms but formal qualifications are not a regulatory requirement, so the FSSC has signed a partnership with the International Compliance Association to establish an industry-wide standard which will prevent, for example, both money laundering and pensions mis-selling. As a result of the proposals, the Skills Council and ICA is now seeking the support of "senior compliance practitioners" to begin the consultation process who are prepared to: serve on one of the two steering groups relating to standards in co...

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