Firms continue to face Consumer Duty board reporting challenges

Need for further clarity and standardised templates, CII report finds

Isabel Baxter
clock • 2 min read

Financial planning and insurance professionals continue to face challenges with the regulator’s Consumer Duty board reporting requirements, the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has found.

Knowing what data to include, availability of appropriate data, and integrating data were some of the areas found to be the most challenging, with an increase in firms reporting difficulty in showing the relationship between different data sets and manually entering data since 2024. Findings were drawn from a July 2025 survey of CII members which generated 337 responses. The CII hosted a roundtable discussion to examine the results, which detailed progress and ongoing challenges of Consumer Duty board reporting, one year after firms submitted their first mandatory reports. Insuranc...

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