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Unit 1 - The Regulatory environment Flashcards

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What does FCA stand for and what are they responsible for?

Who is it responsible to?
Who is it funded by?

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Financial conduct authority. It is the conduct regulator for all financial firms.

Responsible for protecting consumers, keeping industry stable and promoting healthy competition.

It’s an Independent company and reports to HM treasury (within UK gov)

Charges fees to its member firms

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What does PRA stand for?

Who is it responsible to?

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Prudential regulation authority - look at firms that pose systemic risk. This includes deposit taking firms, insurers and systemically important investment firms. They also have insurance objective to protect those who are/ may become policyholders.

Bank of England

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What are the core purposes of BoE

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  1. Monetary stability - stable prices
  2. Financial stability - stability of financial systems
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What is the purpose of the financial policy committee?

How often do they meet and for what?

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Identify, monitory and take action to remove financial risk/ instability in UK

They are part of BoE

Meet at least 4x year to produce 2 financial stability reports

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What type of firms do PRA look at?

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PRA firms/dual regulated firms:

Deposit takers
Insurers
Significant investment firms

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What are the statutory objectives into FCA?

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Strategic objective
- ensuring relevant markets function well

Operational objective
- Consumer protection
- Integrity of financial firms
- effective competition

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What is a relevant market?

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Regulated market e.g. exchange, Multi lateral Trading Facilities /Organised TF, some OTC markets

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Difference between fixed and flexible portfolio firms?

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Fixed = large firms

Flexible = all other

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How do the FCA do their risk based approach to fixed portfolio firms?

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Proactive - business model analysis and drivers of conduct (over 12-36 months)
Reactive
Thematic - potential harm

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How do the FCA do their risk based approach to flexible portfolio firms?

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Reactive
Thematic - potential harm

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What are the FCA’s tools of supervision?

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Identify harm/ potential harm
diagnose cause, extent and potential outcome
remedy
evaluate their own actions

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Difference between FSMA and FCA?

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FSMA - financial service and markets act (2000) - law that allows FCA to regulate financial services and market

FCA - financial services act (2012) - amended this i.e. name FCA and PRA as regulators

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General powers of FCA?

How does this compare to powers of PRA?

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FSMA allows FCA to:

  1. Make rules to authorised firms that are legally binding on regulating and non regulated activity
  2. disciplinary action/ sanctions for breach of rules
  3. prosecute for financial crime

PRA has similar rule making powers but only to PRA-authorised persons

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What are the FCA principles for businesses?

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I See Many Fair Maidens at the 5 C’s Regatta

  1. Integrity
  2. Skills, care and diligence
  3. Management and control - needs adequate risk managment systems
  4. Financial prudence
  5. Market conduct
  6. Customers interests
  7. Communication with clients
  8. conflicts of interest
  9. customers: relationships of trust
  10. clients’ assets
  11. Relations and regulators

There are modifications for foreign firms operating in UK

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What is the purpose of SYSC (senior management arrangement, systems and control) - Principle 3 of principles of business?

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  • encourage directors to take responsibility for firms arrangements on regulatory matters i.e. risk, compliance, audit
  • all financial firms have common platform of these organisational systems

records must be kept for 6 years

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What are common platform firms?

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Firms subject to MIFID/ CRD (capital requirement directive = rules for financial firms detailing they should have sufficient financial resources and systems and control to manage the business and risk)

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What is the competent employee rule? SYSC 5

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States employees must be trained well to perform their duties, have discrete duties and be monitored

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What are the general requirements of SYSC?

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Sound governance, produce written reports on compliance and internal audit, experienced management, clear responsibilities

Also have senior managers for other areas e.g. financial crime, risk etc

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What is the purpose of EU directives and regulations?

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Create common rules in financial industry

allow frictionless cross-border trading with EEA (European economic area)

20
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What is the EU withdrawal act 2018?

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  • Drafted EU regulations into UK law (onshoring)
  • keeps current UK laws that implement EU obligations
  • can change UK laws
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What does the FCA handbook entail?

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Binding - DRoP
- rules to authorised persons
- directions to a course of action
- statements of principle binding on approved persons

Non binding
- guidance = how firms comply with the rule
- Evidence = how firms can show they’ve complied with the rule
- conduct - examples of good market behaviour

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What is industry guidance?

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FCA/ PRA allow firms to set their own best practice and if approved then carries same weight as regulator guidance

23
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Difference between rule based regulation and principle based regulation?

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Rule based = clearly defined and inflexible so in addition we have principle based which focuses more on purpose of regulation

24
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In the 6th FCA Principle for Business (customers interests) what are the consumer outcomes?

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  1. Fair treatment
  2. Meet the needs of consumer
  3. clear info before, during and after sale
  4. suitable advice
  5. functional products/services
  6. no unreasonable barriers

FMCAFB

This is a continuous process

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What is the purpose of Senior management arrangements?

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Need to have discrete directors in change of different areas. all firms will have this

26
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What are the 8 CISI code of conduct?

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  1. personal accountability
  2. client interests first
  3. conflict of interest
  4. respect for market partners
  5. professional development
  6. aware of capabilities and limits
  7. respect others + environment - D&I etc
  8. speak up and listen

All cars can run down a red street
Binding on CISI members

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What are the powers of the competitition and markets authority?

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  1. Ix and block m&a to protect interests of consumers
  2. work with FCA/PRA to protect consumers
  3. can prosecute if firms e.g. price fix
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What are the powers of the competition and markets authority?

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  1. Ix and block m&a to protect interests of consumers
  2. work with FCA/PRA to protect consumers
  3. can prosecute if firms e.g. price fix
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Purpose of the pension regulator?

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Protects members benefits and ensures employers are compliant with obligations

Specifically work based pension schemes

30
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Purpose of the pension protection fund?
Who are they accountable to?

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Protect benefits of defined benefit pension schemes e.g. final salary schemes. If their employers become insolvent, and their pension schemes cannot afford to pay people their promised pensions, the PPF will compensate them financially for the money they have lost.

accountable to secretary of state for work and pensions

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Purpose of HMRC?

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Shares info with financial regulators
In charge of collecting tax

Set up tax benefits and investment restrictions on ISA’s

32
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What is the Upper tribunal (Tax and chancery chamber)

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Attached to ministry of justice

Hears appeals against FCA/PRA or Pensions regulator decisions

33
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What is the UCITS directive?

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UCITS = undertakings for the collective investment in transferable securities

Harmonised framework for investment funds that can be sold to retail investors in the EU

33
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What are the purpose of the Takeover Panel?

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  • Ensure fair treatment of affected parties during the process of the takeover or merger (fair treatment set out in takeover code)
  • It’s an independent body
34
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What does the consumer rights act state?

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  • challenge unfair terms in the financial services consumer contracts (even those individually negotiated between consumer and a firm)
  • amend/ challenge unfair terms for use in future contracts and get a court injunction on existing contracts
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What are the PRAs tools of supervision?

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Proactive intervention framework (PIF) where they assess authorised firms in terms of how close it is to failure when coming up and how it can manage the risks (i.e. business risk, capital, liquidity) so PRA can respond early

there are 5 stages of risk and when business is seen to be deteriorating the PRA will review their supervisory actions.

36
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what is the accountability regime?

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This is the Senior manager and certification regime (SMCR). People with roles that are designated senior management functions (SMFs) must apply to get regulatory approval from PRA/FCA and can be held accountable for failings in their distinct role

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