What are the Results of Treating Customers Fairly?
Related Courses Anyone who deals with distributing products or services to customers must ensure that the customers are treated fairly. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) oversees the financial, professional and ethical conduct of financial service providers. Through their Principles for Businesses and criteria for Treating Customers Fairly (TCF), the FCA aims to help companies understand […]
How Can You Comply with Food Safety and Hygiene Legislation?
Our related Courses Compliance with food safety and hygiene legislation is important as it ensures that consumers can buy and consume food with confidence. If you don’t comply with food safety and hygiene legislation, you will be subject to investigation by the UK Food Standards Agency. To comply with food safety and food hygiene legislation, […]
What are the Market Abuse Regulations (MAR)?
The Market Abuse Regulations (MAR) are a set of robust regulations, enforced across the European Union (EU) to actively reduce the rate of market abuse in the industry and to protect individual investors and consumers. The MAR came into effect on 3 July 2016 across EU member states and is subsequently enforced in the UK […]
How are Food Hygiene Ratings Calculated?
The UK’s Food Standards Agency is an independent department of the Government, responsible for calculating food hygiene ratings to help consumers choose where to eat and buy food. The food hygiene rating scheme gives food businesses a rating from 0 to 5, which is accessible to consumers to view and consider. Understanding how the food […]
What are the FCA Principles for Business?
The UK financial services firms contribute hugely to our economy, so we must be able to trust them. The primary objective of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to regulate and manage the conduct of these firms to protect consumers and the economy. This involves a broad range of roles and responsibilities, which are outlined […]
What are the Key Points of MAR?
The Market Abuse Regulations (MAR) was created in July 2016 to enhance and harmonise the EU regime on market abuse. The key points of the MAR focus on the types of market abuse which will not be tolerated and how to identify and avoid market abuse. The MAR also increases the scope of existing offences […]
Workplace Fire Safety Regulations
UK law specifies what is expected of employers regarding the prevention of fires in the workplace. Before 2005, there were 80 pieces of legislation dealing with fire safety in the UK. This was simplified and set out under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, covering England and Wales. Similar legislation followed in Scotland (Part 3 […]
Will GDPR Apply after Brexit?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union (EU) law governing the processing of personal data. ‘Personal data’ is information about any living, identifiable person, whilst ‘processing’ refers to what the data is used for and the way it is treated (e.g. it may be stored on a server) once it has been […]
Why is GDPR good for business?
The newly implemented General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) across Europe has been dramatised, as critics have suggested that GDPR is going to cost businesses a lot of money to implement the regulations. However, this isn’t necessarily the case. In-fact, businesses will benefit from GDPR, as the new regulations offer security, co-operation and the opportunity to […]