FSRE Flashcards
Regulation needed for?
SIP
Stability
Institution Safety
Protect Consumer
FSMA 2000 did what?
Made FSA single regulator, instead of BoE
‘O others’
FSA 2012 did what?
‘1+2’
Twin Peaks: PRA, FCA
From ‘Authorities’: FSA, BoE, Treasury
EU Withdrawal Act 2018 did?
18: ‘Hateeen’
Retain laws as were, ‘correct’ deficiencies
F.S.A 2021 did what?
‘On the run’
In flight legislation
Layers of regulation?
PRIA
Parliament
Regulatory Bodies
Institutions
Arbitration
FPC responsible for?
Tools?
Macro prudential ‘big picture’
Counter Cyclical Buffer: Alter capital of risks on horizon
Sectoral Capital Requirements
PRA/FCA Principles of Regulation?
STEPCOST
Sustainable Growth
Tailored to each firm
Efficient/Economic use of resources
Proportionality: burdens vs expected benefits
Consumer take responsibility
Openness/Disclosure: incl publishing regulated people
SM responsibility
Transparency: Work as openly as possible
PRA statutory objectives?
PRA
Protection - For insurance policyholders
Rivalry - Enable competition
Assurance - Safety/Soundness of Institutions
PRA achieves objectives how? Using?
CLAC
Capital Compliance with Prudential Standards
Liquidity, Assets, Reserves
Annual Risk Ax of Risks
Contingency Plans Ax for Recovery/Exit
Proactive Intervention Framework
FCA Strategic Objective? Operational Objectives?
Ensure relevant markets function well
PIC
Protection for consumers.
Integrity of UK Financial System
Competition for Interests of Consumers
FCA Supervision Characteristics?
SCRAPPTC
Strategy Ax: For potential harms
Culture/Governance: Behaviours
Right Systemic Harms
Accountability: Individual & Firm
Proactive: Forward looking
Proportionate (Fixed Portfolio: Largest)
Two away Comms: Consumers-Industry
Co-ordination: By Regulatory Bodies
FCA discipline/enforcement tools?
PAIR RCD
Permission Variation for firms
Approval withdrawal for people
Injunction: Prevent benefit
Restitution: Forfeit profit to FCA
Redress: Losses to be made good
Criminal Prosecution
Disciplinary Action
FCA manages failure of firms; what is the risk stratification?
P1: Critical
P2: Significant
P3: Non-Significant
FCA Principles for Business?
ISMPCICITARG
In Selling My Powers, Conduct In Communication Interests Trusts And Regulators Greatly
Integrity
Skill/Care/Diligence
Management and Control: Responsible
Prudence: Financially
Conduct (Market): Proper standards
Interests of Customers: Treat Fairly
Communication with Clients: Not misleading
Interests (Conflict of) Mx Fairly
Trust for Customer: With suitable advice
Assets Protected (Clients)
Regulatory Relations
Good Outcome
Basis of 12th FCA principle?
VESPa
Value fair & Reflecting Benefits
Equip consumers to make effective decision
Service helpful: Easy to switch/cancel/complain
Purposed: For Consumers
Fair Rx Outcomes?
SAPFIE
Suitable Advice Gicen
After sales reasonable
Products meet needs
Fair Rx central
Informed throughout
Expected performance
Trainee advisors required to do?
Regulatory module of qualification within 48Mths & L4 qualification
Ongoing competence requirements?
At least 35 hrs CPD + at least 21 hrs structured
Corporate culture - consumer harm drivers?
Governance
Approach to rewarding/Mx people
Leadership
Purpose
Conduct Rules?
Senior manager rules?
CODIS CRDN
Customer fairness
Open with regulators
Diligence
Integrity
Standard of Market Conduct
Controlled effectively
Regulatory Compliant
Delegate Appropriately
Notify FCA/PRA appropriately
Fitness and propriety test?
ICS
Integrity
Competence
Soundness financially
Good outcomes dependent on?
CAR
Competence of Advisor
Ax Suitability
Research and Diligence
Suitability reports given when?
For Pension Plans with Cooling Off period?
When/ASAP after recommendation & before contract.
Within 14 days of contract.
Client Agreements for?
Give when?
keep for how long?
Designated Iv services: discretionary, futures, options (NOT PRIIPs, Pensions, Life Policies). Recognises extra reliance.
Before service/agreement
As long as client relationship.
Indefinitely - Pension Transfers, Opt-Outs, FSAVCs
Record keeping requirements?
- Pension Contracts
- Pension Transfers/Opt-Outs
- Life Policies
- MiFID Business (Meaning within EEA)
- Others
Five Years
Indefinitely
Five Years
Five Years
Three Years
Cancellation notice runs from?
Iv, Stocks/Shares/Deposit ISAs?
LISA cancellation period how long?
Later of contract conclusion/client receives T+Cs.
14 Days.
30d (Also PPI, LI, Annuities)
Economic Policy Objectives?
GUSE
Growth
Unemployment low
Stability of Prices
Equilibirum
Corporation tax how much?
When?
25%
9mths post accounting period <1.5m, Quarterly >1.5m
Assets from low risk to high risk?
Cash Buys People Safety
Cash Bonds Property Shares
Benefits reduced if?
None if?
> £6000
£16,000
Who has 1 responsibility for Market Information Misiconduct?
Serious Fraud Office
ID + Transactional Evidence keep for how long?
5 Years
Money Laundering offences?
CAP
Concealing
Arranging
Property - Criminal (Acquiring)
Features of money?
PADS
Portable, Acceptable to all, Divisible, Sufficient
B.S.A 1986 did what?
Allowed demutualisation to bank.
FSBRA 2013 did what?
‘Ring fenced’ customer deposits.
Building societies permitted to raise how much on wholesale market?
50%
H.M.T can increase to 75% w/o further legislation.
Reasons for Intermediation?
GRAM
Geography
Risk Transformation
Aggregation
Maturity Transformation
How many people can be informed with an LPA?
Up to 5
EPOA is also know as?
How many people need to be informed?
‘Ordinary beyond losing capacity’
At least three people.
Valid contract features?
FACTCIL
Free from duress
Agreement
Capacity to consent (18 or over)
Terms Certain & Complete
Consideration
Intention for Legal Relationship
Legality of Object
Consumer Insurance Act 2012 –> If deemed ‘careless’?
Compensatory remedy:
- Cancel (Not Life insurance)
- Adjust: increase Premiums/Reduce benefits
- Reject and Repay
Insolvency Act 1986: Creditor must be owed how much to declare someone bankrupt?
For self-bankruptcy?
£5000 (£3000 in Scotland).
£1500
Insolvency Act 1986: If interest is >£1000 what is included?
Trustee can ‘attack’ prior transactions in what period?
House; if have family have up to twelve months to move.
Preceding 2 years, else need to prove insolvent at time, or became so as a result t get 5 years.
Offences for those that are bankrupt?
PLOB
- Public office jobs not allowed
- Limited company not allowed
- Obtaining £500 or more not allowed.
- Business continuing with rename not allowed.
Enterprise Act 2012: How long is discharge period?
12 Months.
For IVA/CVA?
Keep records for?
Who carries out?
Must owe at least £7000, to at least two creditors. At least 75% of debt represented must agree.
6 Years.
Insolvency Practitioner
Debt Relief Order: requirements?
U2, 75, 90, 30, 2, 6
- Unable to pay: Assets <£2k, <£75/mth disposable income
- Pay £90
- £30k Max Debt
- No gifts within 2 yrs (Or DROs/Insolvency within 6yrs)
- If granted; 12 Mth Moratorium
Property: Up to how many owners?
Four, then others are equitable (Economic interest, no right to transfer)
From when is it compulsory to register land on remortgage/transfer?
1990
Joint tenancy vs TiC?
For TiC if survivor wants to sell?
Both own whole property, on death, passes between them. TIC: Each has defined share, on death survivor becomes ‘trust in land’.
- Cannot sell alone, have to appoint legal owner if there is not at least two surviving legal owners.
How does Quantitative Easing work?
BoE buys government and private bonds, causing price increases, decreasing the yield, decreasing interest rates, leading to: ‘NIC’
- New money for FIs to lend
- Inflation
- Conditions in capital markets improve
What is M0 Money?
M4 Money?
- M4 Lending?
M0 = Narrow Money = Cash base
M4 = Broad Money = Banks/B.S. deposits, Loan rates
- Influenced by IRs controlling new credits made
Difference between CPI and RPI?
RPI includes housing costs (Not House Prices)
Interest Rates: Nominal? Real?
Actual. Real = Inflation Adjusted.
How many witnesses required for wills?
2 (1 in Scotland).