Welcome to the FCA!

Well, in case anyone is  working today and in case you haven't spotted, you now have a new regulator: The Financial Conduct Authority.

This will mean a number of new things no doubt over the coming weeks and months but the first couple of points are:-

IT IS TIME to change your stationery and notices on web pages, emails and so on.

Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority

should be  replaced by :

Authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority

Your Firm Reference Number (FRN) will remain the same BUT, some firms refer to this as their FSA Number. If yours is one of these firms,  then it is time to change it from FSA to either FCA or, more precisely FRN.

You actually have  six months to change your stationery but no time like the present for all those miscellaneous references on emails and web pages, not to mention any financial promotions in paper publications.

THE SECOND CHANGE is that the site for all of us is no longer :

www.fsa.gov.uk (this still exists but will not be updated)

it is now:

www.fca.org.uk

(Notice that it is a .org and not a .gov ! )

 

This is your prime point of reference going forwards. This is where you will access GABRIEL and ONA and such like and get any information on small firms . Your usernames and passwords should be  unchanged.

I hope that you all had a good Easter!