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Implementing a Framework to Manage
Product Development Risk
in Retail Financial Services
22 February 2012
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Implementing a Framework to Manage Product Development Risk in Retail Financial Services
This focused workshop suggests a framework through which product providers can manage product development risk from conception, through to launch and ongoing after sales monitoring.
Manage the regulatory and business risks facing product manufacturers
- Learn how to apply FSA guidance regarding product governance
- Demonstrate effective compliance controls
- Evidence senior management oversight around the entire product manufacturing process
- Implement end-to-end monitoring and testing around new products
- Avoid the risk of future mis-selling claims
Address the emerging hot topics of
- Suitability
- Structured products
- Stress testing new and existing products
- Risk of counterparty failure
Implement processes for managing product manufacturing risk in your business
- Understand and control the specific sources of product risk inherent to your business
- Find out how to effectively set and monitor investment limits
- Manage changes in underlying funds
- Get to grips with risks associated with distributors and third parties
- Implement effective procedures for post sale monitoring
View the full Product Development Risk Workshop Programme here
Recent comments from the FSA concerning Product Development Risk
"We want firms to compare their product governance to the guidance we set out and address any areas for improvement. A lack of robustness in a firms' product development and marketing processes can increase the risk of poorly-designed products and lead to mis-selling.”
Source: Nausicaa Delfas, Head of Conduct Supervision, FINANCIAL SERVICES AUTHORITY (November 2011)
Media Partners:
Introducing your Product Development Risk workshop leader
Adam Samuel has run his own compliance consultancy for the last 15 years, specialising in the retail sector. He advises, trains, fixes problems and writes material for a wide variety of clients in this area. He also resolves commercial disputes as an arbitrator. Adam originally qualified as a barrister and later as an Attorney in the US. Subsequently, he acquired an Advanced Financial Planning Certificate and a Mortgage Advisers Qualification. Adam re-drafted the Institute of Financial Planning's Disciplinary Procedures and helps the Institute deal with cases as its outside investigator. He is the author of 'Consumer Complaints and Compensation', the only UK financial services book on the subject.
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