11 May 2018
The process of creating compliant financial promotion and marketing materials isn't straightforward. Firms have to balance their sales message (what they want to say) with strict regulatory requirements to disclose key product and company information and not to mislead the customer (what they have to say, what they can say and how to say it). This can be a particular challenge when explaining the complexities of some financial products. Drawing upon OAC's experience of checking financial pro...
20 June 2017
Between 6 June and 20 June OAC hosted seminars across the UK to explain the technical requirements of the new PRIIPs Regulation for producing Key Information Documents (KID). A large number of insu...
06 June 2017
Selected news from the UK's conduct regulator since the previous edition of OAC Digest (14 March 2017): Draft guidance on Part VII insurance business transfers, PRIIPs disclosure framework, complai...
10 May 2017
OAC is delighted to have teamed up with BDO to provide free regional seminars on PRIIPs KID and IFRS 17 for insurance firms. With recent developments in both topics, our experts will explain the re...
31 March 2017
On 29 March 2017, the European Parliament supported a motion to raise no objections to the European Commission's Delegated Regulation of 8 March 2017 for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investm...
27 March 2017
Following on from our update in the last edition of OAC Digest Roundup and Commentary Edition, there have been further significant developments in Europe. On 8 March the European Commission adopt...
15 March 2017
On 8 March 2017, the European Commission adopted a new version of the regulatory technical standard (RTS) for PRIIPs, following a rejection of the last version on some specific points by the Europe...
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