Regulatory AlertsPS13/7 Consumer credit: interim permission fees
The Financial Conduct Authority issues this policy statement to define the interim permission fees applicable to firms transferring from the Office of Fair Trading upon the regulator's takeover on 1 April 2014. The document specifies which entities, including licensed firms and credit unions, are required to pay these fees and identifies those exempt from the charges. This measure implements rules resulting from recent parliamentary legislative changes while a comprehensive consultation on the full proposed regime is scheduled for later in the year.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will take over the regulation of consumer credit from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) on 1 April 2014.
Why are we issuing this Policy Statement (PS)?
This policy statement sets out the fees that we will charge firms that register with us for ‘interim permission’ and which firms will not have to pay these fees.
This follows the recent legislative
changes made by Parliament that enables the transfer of the OFT responsibilities to the FCA.
This paper does not give the full details of our proposed consumer credit regime. We will do that in a consultation paper later on in the year.
Who is this PS aimed at?
This paper will interest:
firms that currently hold individual or group consumer credit licences issued by the OFT under the Consumer Credit Act 1974
credit unions
trade bodies representing consumer credit firms
bodies providing non-commercial debt advice (whether alone or together with non-commercial debt adjusting and non-commercial credit information services)
local authorities.
Policy Statement
PS13/7 FCA regime for consumer credit: interim permission fees Response to Question 25 in the FSA consultation CP13/7 and made rules
What are the next steps?
Our consultation paper later in the year will set out our full proposed approach and will interest consumers and consumer bodies.
Want to find out more?
FSA CP13/7 - Consumer credit regulation - our proposed regime
PS13/8 - FCA regime for consumer credit: carrying across some Consumer Credit Act secondary legislation into FCA rules - Including made rules
Visit the Consumer credit web pages
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