'Clear guidance' on streamlined advice shows FCA is engaged, says DT's Goss

Follows FAMR report

Hannah Godfrey
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The Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) guidance on streamlined advice shows the regulator is engaged with those offering the service, Distribution Technology chief executive Ben Goss has said.

Goss said he was impressed with the "very clear and helpful statement" from the regulator about streamlined advice and felt this was a clear sign the FCA wanted to encourage the use of simplified processes by financial advisers. "[The FCA provided] a very helpful assessment of what good practice looks like and what bad practice looks like", Goss said, "it will be very helpful for firms considering automation as part of their business, it will act as a very good checklist for firms and says ‘look, these are the things you need to think about.'" On 11 April, the FCA published its first ...

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