Almost all firms and individuals carrying out financial services activities in the UK have to be authorised or registered by us. This firm is not authorised or registered by us but has been targeting people in the UK, claiming to be an authorised firm. This is what we call a ‘clone firm’; and fraudsters usually […]
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Ellis David Insurance Brokers (clone of FCA authorised firm)
Almost all firms and individuals carrying out financial services activities in the UK have to be authorised or registered by us. This firm is not authorised or registered by us but has been targeting people in the UK, claiming to be an authorised firm. This is what we call a ‘clone firm’; and fraudsters usually […]
Loan For Tenant (clone of authorised firm)
Almost all firms and individuals carrying out financial services activities in the UK have to be authorised or registered by us. This firm is not authorised or registered by us but has been targeting people in the UK, claiming to be an authorised firm. This is what we call a ‘clone firm’; and fraudsters usually […]
Red Arc Global Investments plc (clone of an FCA recognised collective investment scheme)
Almost all firms and individuals offering, promoting or selling financial services or products in the UK have to be authorised by us. However, some firms act without our authorisation and some knowingly run investment scams. This firm is not authorised by us and is targeting people in the UK. Based upon information we hold, we […]
Square Global Ltd t/a Square Global Enterprise (clone of FCA authorised firm)
Almost all firms and individuals carrying out financial services activities in the UK have to be authorised or registered by us. This firm is not authorised or registered by us but has been targeting people in the UK, claiming to be an authorised firm. This is what we call a ‘clone firm’; and fraudsters usually […]
Scrilliy (clone)
Almost all firms and individuals carrying out financial services activities in the UK have to be authorised or registered by us. This firm is not authorised or registered by us but has been targeting people in the UK, claiming to be an authorised firm. This is what we call a ‘clone firm’; and fraudsters usually […]
Regulation round-up October 2018
October 2018 Quick Links Introduction: Christopher Woolard, Executive Director of Strategy and Competition Our Pensions Strategy sets out new joint actions with The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to tackle the risk of people having inadequate retirement incomes. It also addresses our approach to recent fundamental changes in the sector such as the pensions freedoms and auto-enrolment. We […]
New events added for Live & Local 2018/19 programme
We began the 2018/19 programme in September with a new series of events for regulated firms. As before, we will visit each region more than once during the programme to give firms more opportunity to attend a variety of events. A regular series of events are aimed at general insurance, retail investment and mortgage firms, […]
Going green: the FCA’s developing approach
Speaker: Christopher Woolard, Executive Director of Strategy and CompetitionEvent: FCA’s Innovating for a Greener Great Britain event, LondonDelivered: 19 October 2018Note: this is the speech as drafted and may differ from the delivered version Highlights Our job is to make markets for financial services work well. Part of that is ensuring that financial services are adequately prepared to cope […]
FCA and TPR publish joint pensions strategy
The strategy identifies key issues which contribute to the prospect of people not having adequate income, or the income they expected in retirement. To tackle the main drivers of this harm, the FCA and TPR set out a vision for the pensions sector over the next 5 to 10 years. This includes making clear their […]