How to plan for the financial services revolution

Are you prepared for the major changes in distributing financial services products that will occur over the next few years?

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Are you prepared for the major changes in distributing financial services products that will occur over the next few years?

Whilst the RDR provides a regulatory timeline for some of these changes, intermediaries and providers who are adjusting their proposition to become RDR compliant for 2012 could be making a huge mistake and missing out on a major opportunity. Regulation usually takes much longer to take effect than originally envisaged at outset, but it is not regulation that will cause the revolution. It is the customers who have seen all their other retail experiences change dramatically that will be looking for similar changes to occur in financial services. 2012 could be the start of a customer-...

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