British Steel adviser recovers transfer permissions after 'thorough' process

Permissions regained on 10 August

Hannah Godfrey
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County Capital Wealth Management, which trades as The Pension Review Service, has become the first of the British Steel advisers to recover its pension transfer permissions after voluntarily giving them up.

County Capital Wealth Management re-established its transfer permissions on 10 August after a six month re-submission process that saw the firm working with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to ensure it met the necessary regulatory requirements. The firm is the first of the advice firms associated with losing permissions as a result of advising British steelworkers to regain its pension transfer permissions. It was one of ten British Steel adviser firms to give up its pension transfer permissions as a result of the saga. The County Durham-based firm, which also has an office loca...

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