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The Treasury published a consultation earlier this month looking to make a number of changes to the AR regime to tighten it up.


This included bringing ARs under the Financial Ombudsman Service’s remit for complaints as well as making principal firms hold a special FCA permission in order to appoint an AR.


FT Adviser's Amy Austin speaks to Simon Morris, a financial services partner with CMS, and David Mills, financial adviser and founder & chair of Pilot, about whether the changes will have a large effect and what advisers can expect.



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