The BIBA Compliance Manual

The 2010 version of the BIBA Compliance Manual is ready. So what can members expect from this year's offering?

As ever the manual contains comprehensive yet plain text on areas such as systems and controls, client money, the selling rules (ICOBS) which includes practical ways to deal with the Industry Guidance on commission disclosure for commercial clients, training and competence, regulatory reporting (RMAR) and complaints. Each chapter contains easy to use templates in order to assist firms achieve, maintain and demonstrate compliance.

So what is new? There is a new section on financial crime, notes on compliance with Threshold Condition 4 (adequate resources), a very useful template to record all risk transfer arrangements and an amendment to the definition for eligible complainants under the Financial Ombudsman Service. Other updates have been made and in total 96 pages in the manual have been revised.

The manual is available on a convenient CD-ROM for £350 + VAT (£411.25).

To find out more on the compliance manual, please click here.

For more information, please contact the publishers directly:

Branko Bjelobaba at Branko Ltd on (0800) 619 6619

Email: branko@branko.org.uk