BY AMI

Why did I watch Andrew Bailey appear before the Treasury Select Committee?  Because he was being interviewed about his part in the London Capital & Finance failure and the report by Dame Elisabeth Gloster that apportioned blame on him for [...]

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BY AMI

It was early November 2020 that Caroline Wayman, Chief Executive and Chief Ombudsman at the Financial Ombudsman Service, sat in front of the Treasury Select Committee to be challenged by Chair Mel Stride and other MPs on the Service’s work.  [...]

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BY AMI

The FSCS has set its funding requirement for 2021/22 with the total amount to be invoiced rising to £1.04bn.  This is because the Life Distribution and Investment Intermediation class and the Investment Provision class have breached their threshold maximums. Total [...]

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BY AMI

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is not one which readily trips off the tongue when considering where the major housing and mortgage market impacts will come from.  However, it is a key driving force in the [...]

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BY AMI

The Treasury is currently consulting on the future financial services regulatory framework.  This is our “once in a generation” chance to shape who regulates our industry with focus on their objectives and how they are “managed and controlled”.  We have [...]

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BY AMI

The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries (AMI) recently partnered with Legal & General and Royal London to undertake a major consumer research project on consumer attitudes and their recollections of interactions in the protection market.  The research asked 5,000 consumers and [...]

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It is almost six months since the FCA published its findings from exploratory work on lifetime mortgage lending on 17 June 2020.  In what has been a muddled year, where mentally it feels like it should be March yet we [...]

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BY AMI

As a trade body head representing the mortgage intermediary community the last few months have been tough.  The isolation of Covid has not suited me well.  I am not looking for sympathy but it has changed our approach to lobbying [...]

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BY AMI

Before the ink has dried on the £17.9m fine imposed by the Competition and Markets Authority on Compare the Market for breaching competition law by imposing wide ‘most favoured nation’ clauses on providers of home insurance, they have announced a [...]

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BY AMI

The FCA has written to all mortgage intermediary firms setting out its supervisory agenda for the next 12 months.  The six page letter sets out the key issues it is concerned about – firms should be able to clearly demonstrate [...]

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