FCA to canvass small adviser firms on impact of regulation

On behalf of the regulator, independent consultancy Kantar Public will conduct in-depth interviews with a small, representative sample of firms over the next month. The initial interviews will inform the design of an online questionnaire that will be sent to a larger sample of firms in April and May. The FCA said such a survey will help to ensure FCA cost benefit analyses and judgements of proportionality take account of smaller firms' circumstances. Kanter Public will "fully anonymise" the results, it added. The regulator is also carrying out the same process with other types of f...