FCA: Prescriptive rules may be needed for re-registration

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Re-registration progress has been "less than satisfactory" according to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the regulator has signalled it will review the decision not to implement timescales for platform providers.

FCA RDR team manager Richard Taylor told attendees at the Tax Incentivised Savings Association (TISA) platform seminar on Tuesday that the regulator will consider post-implementation review work to determine whether "prescriptive rules" for re-registration are needed. He said: "Not everyone has put in the effort and investment to meet our deadline. I remind people of what we said previously; there was complete agreement that re-registration should take place within a reasonable time. "It is worth observing that different people have different concept of reasonable time. "We will us...

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