The Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) deadline is fast approaching and the new regulation comes into force from 9 December 2019 for all FCA solo regulated firms. With Senior Management Functions replacing Controlled Functions, there are a range of additional and enhanced responsibilities and expectations that firms and their…
Not heard of Fraser Syndrome before? Then you wouldn’t be alone. Fraser Syndrome is an extremely rare, recessive gene disorder that affects only around 250 of the 7.7 billion people in the world. Fraser Syndrome, in many cases, can be life-limiting and it comes with severe symptoms: the most common…
What a start to the new football season! Sheffield United are closing on the top four, it’s 2016 all over again for Leicester and Liverpool are walking away with the league, or should I say VAR are gifting them the League…. Much like Arsenal and Man United, I have been…
The Premier League new season starts on Friday 9 August, which means that it is time to enter your team into the Stride Group Broker League. There are monthly prizes for the Manager of the Month, and of course the season reaches its climax when we present the top prize…
Hiscox launched their first Property Owners policy exclusively to Stride Group brokers in December 2018. Both parties have recently conducted a review of the business written since launch and are now looking to extend and develop the partnership. The acceptance criteria has now expanded to include properties valued up to…
SMCR – what insurance brokers need to know – part two What is the SM & CR? SM & CR is a logical way of defining the accountability of individual manager or director in your brokerage and replaces the FCA “Approved Persons” regime known as APER. In addition, the SM…
Following the financial crash in 2008 the Government introduced new rules, which resulted in the introduction of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR). From December 2019 these rules apply to insurance brokers.
This is the first of a three-part article giving brokers tips on how to implement the new regime in their brokerage.
Welcome to the Pleasuredome? As anyone familiar with the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, prog rock legends Rush or even Olivia Newton John knows “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree”. However, at the time nobody thought Xanadu would be found just off the…
Lee Taylor has recently become the Account Manager at Stride Group after trying out the role for a few months. We asked Lee to tell us more about his journey to this point, and to tell us more about himself. How long have you worked at Stride Group? I can’t…
Each year we decide which of the industry’s events and conferences we will exhibit at, and the one we always build in is BIBA. So why is it so important? At Stride Group we enjoy getting to know our brokers so we can really understand what they need and actively…
