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Topic 18 Regulating Firms & Individuals Flashcards

1
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If a person (or corporate body) breaks Section 19 of the Financial Services & Market Act 2000

This is classed as a what?

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A criminal offence

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A person does not have to be authorised to carry out advice.

True or False

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False

They do have to be

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All the below are examples of what?

  • Accepting Deposits
  • Effecting & carrying out insurance contacts (Funeral plans)
  • Dealing in & arranging Investments
  • Managing Investments
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Regulated Activities

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All the below are examples of what?

  • Establishing & Operating Collective Investment Schemes
  • Establishing Stakeholder Pension Schemes
  • Advertising on Investments
  • Mortgage Lending & Administration
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Regulated Activities

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All the below are examples of what?

  • Advising on & arranging mortgages
  • Advising on & arranging general insurance
  • Entering into existing rights under a regulated consumer credit arrangement
  • Debt Collecting
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Regulated Activities

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What are the 2 categories of regulated investment described by the FCA?

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  1. Securities
  2. Contractually Based Investments
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All the below are examples of what?

  • Deposits
  • Electronic Money
  • Insurance Contracts (Funeral plans)
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Regulated Investments

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All the below are examples of what?

  • Gilt-edged stocks & local authority stocks
  • Shares, company loans stocks, debentures & warrants
  • Units in collective investment schemes
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Regulated Investments

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All the below are examples of what?

  • Rights under stakeholder pension schemes
  • Options & Futures
  • Mortgage Contracts
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Regulated Investments

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The section of the Financial Services Market Act 2000 that enables firms to carry out regulated advice is what?

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Part 4A

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Where can the rules relating to the appointment & activities of individuals in a firm can be found?

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High Level standards section of the FCA handbook

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What does the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SM&CR) do?

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  • Establishment of an individual accountability framework
  • Regulates individual conduct & standards
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What is an Appointed Representative (AR)?

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A firm or person who carries out regulated activities & acts as an agent for firm (aka the principle)

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Who is regulated the principal firm or the Appointed Representative (AR)?

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The principal firm

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The policy statement 22/11 has established principals to improve understanding of their responsibilities to AR’s what do they have to do?

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  • Exercise stronger oversight over AR’s
  • Take more responsibility towards AR’s
  • Collect information from AR’s & report it to the FCA
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What are the 3 tiers of the SM&CR framework?

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1.Core
2. Enhanced
3. Limited Scope

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Which tier of the SM&CR framework is this?

Firms in this tier have to comply with baseline procedures

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Core

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Which tier of the SM&CR framework is this?

Firms that represent a greatest risk to customers. These have additional requirements

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Enhanced

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Which tier of the SM&CR framework is this?

Applied to firms already under the approved persons regime. Less baseline procedures & fewer senior management functions

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Limited Scope

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What are the 3 elements of the core regime?

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  • Senior Managers Regime
  • Certificate Regime
  • Code of Conduct
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The Senior Managers Regime (SMR) focuses on Key Individuals in relevant firms.

True or False

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True

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What is a “Statement of Responsibilities” when a person applies for a Senior Managers Regime (SMR) role?

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Details aspects of the business for which they will be taking responsibility for

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What additional requirements do enhanced firms also have to do?

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  • “Responsibilities map” detailing responsibilities each manager is allocated should problems arise
  • Ensure each activity, business area & management function is allocated a senior manager who has responsibility
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What does the each manager have to do regarding breaches in their area?

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Take responsible steps to avoid them

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What is the maximum prison sentence a senior manager could receive if they are found guilty of reckless misconduct?

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7 years

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What Senior Management Functions for Core & SM&CR firm is the below?

SM 1

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Chief Executive

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What Senior Management Functions for Core & SM&CR firm is the below?

SM 3

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Executive Director

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What Senior Management Functions for Core & SM&CR firm is the below?

SM 27

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Partner Function

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What Senior Management Functions for Core & SM&CR firm is the below?

SM 9

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Chair

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What Senior Management Functions for Core & SM&CR firm is the below?

SM 16

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Compliance Oversight Function

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What Senior Management Functions for Core & SM&CR firm is the below?

SM 17

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Money Laundering Reporting Function

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What is the Certification Regime (CR)?

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Actions of people in more junior roles but still cause harm to their firm or customers

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For a Certified Regime (CR) position does the person need to be approved by the FCA?

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No but the firm must ensure they are “fit & proper” to carry out their role

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All the below are what?

  • Significant management function
  • Proprietary traders
  • CASS operational oversight functions
  • Functions that require qualifications
  • Client dealing functions
  • Supervising or managing a certificate function (not a senior function)
  • Material risk taker
  • Algorithm trading responsibilities
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Examples of Certification Regime (CR) set by the FCA

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Who is responsible for the Certification Regime (CR) in a firm?

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A designated senior manager

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What is the code of conduct?

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Rules set by the regulator that apply to the below in a firm.

  • Senior managers
  • Certified Persons
  • Other employees
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What tier one individual conduct rule is this?

CR1

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Must act with integrity

38
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What tier one individual conduct rule is this?

CR2

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Must act with skill, care & diligence

39
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What tier one individual conduct rule is this?

CR3

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Must be open & co-operative with the FCA, PRA & other regulators

40
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What tier one individual conduct rule is this?

CR4

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Must pay due regard to the interest of customers & treat them fairly

41
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What tier one individual conduct rule is this?

CR5

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Must observe proper standards of conduct

42
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What tier one individual conduct rule is this?

CR6

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Must act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers

43
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What tier two senior managers conduct rule is this?

SM1

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Reasonable steps to ensure the business of the firm for which they are responsible for is controlled effectively

44
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What tier two senior managers conduct rule is this?

SM2

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Reasonable steps to ensure the business of the firm for which they are responsible complies with relevent requirement standard of the regulatory system

45
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What tier two senior managers conduct rule is this?

SM3

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Reasonable steps to ensure the delegation of your responsibilities is to an appropriate person & you oversee the discharge of delegated responsibility effectively

46
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What tier two senior managers conduct rule is this?

SM4

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Must disclose appropriately any information of which the FCA or PRA would reasonably expect

47
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What must firms do regarding the code of conduct rules?

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  • Make individual subject to rules aware of this
  • Take action when staff fall below standards
48
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When must a firm report a breach to the FCA against a senior manager

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Within 7 days

49
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All the below are what?

  • Criminal Record
  • Disciplinary Hearings
  • Known contravention of FCA or regulations with companies that have contravened regulations
  • Complaints about regulated activities
  • Insolvency or management of companies that have become insolvent
  • Dismissal from a position of trust or disqualified as a director
A

How Honestly, Integrity & Reputation is assessed against a person applying for a senior position in a firm

50
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The below is what?

FCA Training and Competance

A

A person applying for a role which requires SM&CR must have Competance or Capacity

51
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The below are examples of what?

  • Current financial position
  • Previous bankruptcy or adverse credit rating
A

A person applying for a role which requires SM&CR must have Financial Soundness

52
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To stop a person with poor conduct from moving from employer to employer what is done?

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  • Fit & Proper to carry out duties
  • Prospective employer caries out criminal record & credit check
  • References be taken from the previous 6 years
53
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What is the Financial Services Register?

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Public record of all individuals, firms & other bodies that have been regulated by the FCA

54
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What is the FCA Directory?

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FCA publishes directory of certified & associated persons on the financial services register so people can check the details of key individuals in a firm

55
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How do senior managers demonstrate their compliance with the FCA’S rules?

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  1. Management Information (MI)
  2. Staff have defined responsibilities & monitored appropriately
  3. Monitoring of compliance procedures & updating them regularly
56
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All the below are?

  • Establishment of clear chains or responsibility
  • Compliance
  • Assessment & Reporting of risk
  • Competence & honesty of staff
  • Strategy for controlling business risks
  • Adequate & readily accessible records
  • Audit of systems
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Systems & Controls

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What are the first 4 of the FCA’S principals for supervision are?

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  1. Being forward looking & pre-emptive
  2. Focusing of the firms & the FCA’S business strategy
  3. Focusing on firms culture & governance
  4. Emphasis on individual strategy
58
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What are the second 4 of the FCA’S principals for supervision are?

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  1. Taking a proportion based risk approach
  2. Engaging in 2 way communication (Industry, firms & customers)
  3. Ensuring messages provided are co-ordinated & consistent
  4. Fixing systemic harm & preventing re-occurance
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What approach does the FCA take to Supervision?

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Proportionate

60
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What are the 2 proportionate approaches the FCA takes to supervision?

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  1. Portfolio
  2. Dedicated oversight
61
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What is the below FCA supervisory group?

  • Banking & Insurance groups with a large number of retail customers Investment banks
  • Subject to the highest level of supervision
  • Supervised using continuous assessment
  • Have a named supervisor
A

Dedicated Supervisory Oversight

62
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What is the below FCA supervisory group?

  • Variety of firms across all sectors
  • Small firms and intermediaries
  • Business model supervised
  • Contact point is the FCA
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Supervised as portfolio

63
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Which of the 3 Pillars of the FCA’S Supervisory model is this?

Pre-emptive identification of harm through review & assessment of firms & portfolio (including business models)

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Pillar 1: Proactive firm or group supervision

64
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What is the below FCA supervisory group?

Dealing with issues that are emerging or have happened to prevent harm growing

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Pillar 2: Event driven reactive supervision

65
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What is the below FCA supervisory group?

Wider diagnostic or remedy work where there is actual harm across a number of firms

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Pillar 3:
Issues & Products

66
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What are the ways the FCA supervises the impact on customers & market integrity in a firm?

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  • Business Model & strategy
  • Culture
  • Frontline business processes
  • Systems & Controls
    Governance
67
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What 3 types of employee does the FCA’S Training & Competence (TC) particularly apply to?

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  1. Financial advisors (investments)
  2. Supervisors of those advisors
  3. Supervisors of back office adminstration
68
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Where was the Training & Competence (TC) sourcebook moved in 2011

A

High level standards

69
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With regards to training when must it be conducted?

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At appropriate intervals for each employee

70
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What must advisers do before they can commence activities under an employer?

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  • Achieved an adequate level of knowledge & skill to operate under supervision
  • Passed regulatory module of an appropriate qualification
71
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What must advisers do before they can commence activities under an employer without supervision?

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  • Pass all models of a appropriate exam
  • Able to demonstrate ability to act competently under minimum supervision
72
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When must the regulation module of a investment qualification be achieved?

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Within 48 months of starting

73
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What are the below in relation to a competence?

  • Technical Knowledge
  • Skills & Expertise
  • Changes in the market & products, legislation & regulation
A

How firms maintain the competence of staff

74
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How many hours of Continued Professional Development (CPD) must a financial advisor must complete?

75
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How many hours of Continued Professional Development (CPD) must be structured?

76
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How long must records be kept for employees carrying out non-MiFID business?

77
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How long must records be kept for employees carrying out MiFID business?

78
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What must advisors obtain each year from an FCA accredited body?

A

Statement of Professional Standing (SPS)

79
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What are the below?

  • Details of prior competence
  • Initial Assessments
  • Training courses
  • Assessment by exam
  • Success in exams
  • Summary of discussions with supervisor
A

Records of competence assessment

80
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  • Contravening regulations
  • Providing false information
  • Falsifying documents
  • Acting outside of scope

Are all examples of what

A

Examples of misconduct by an authorised person

81
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  • Participating in money laundering
  • allowing persons who are not approved or certified to carry out functions within the remit of the SM&CR

Are all examples of what

A

Examples of misconduct by an authorised person

82
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What does the person appointed by the FCA have the power to do during an investigation?

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  • Demand the person being investigated answer all questions
  • Any person (regardless of being investigated) answer all questions or provide information
83
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Which FCA enforcement power is this?

May involve removal of one of the firms permitted activities or a narrowing of the description of a particular activity

A

Variation of a firm’s permissions

84
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Which FCA enforcement power is this?

FCA might withdraw or suspend a person’s approval or certification to carry out some or all of their role

A

Withdrawal of approval

85
Q

Which FCA enforcement power is this?

If a person has contravened a regulation, The FCA can apply for an Injunction to prevent a person benefiting from that action

A

Injunction

86
Q

Which FCA enforcement power is this?

If a person has resisted from a contravention of regulation. The FCA can apply for a court order for the person to forfeit any profit made from the activity

A

Restitution

87
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Which FCA enforcement power is this?

If it can be shown that losses have been made identifiable. FCA can obtain a court order requiring losses to made good.

88
Q

Which FCA enforcement power is this?

If a authorised person or firm is guilty of misconduct. The FCA has a range of options regarding sanctions it might apply.

  • Issue a “warning notice”
  • Publish a statement of misconduct
  • Impose a financial penalty
A

Disciplinary Actions

89
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Which FCA enforcement power is this?

FCA can announce that it has begun disciplinary action again a firm. The FCA must consult the receiptant of the warning notice before making such an action

A

Disclosure

90
Q

Which FCA enforcement power is this?

  • Intensive supervisory Regime designed to deal with firms that have serious governance failings
  • FCA can enforce a range of actions which include requiring the firms board to commit to specified remedial action. The process of which can then be reviewed
  • FCA can impose binding requirements on a firm in respect of certain actions it must take
A

Enhanced Supervision

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