7 Days Archive
27th April 2020
- Coronavirus – Sackers response
- ESAs consult on ESG disclosure standards
- FCA changes to regulatory reporting
- FCA expectations for wet-ink signatures in light of Coronavirus
- FRC guidance on modified audit opinions due to Coronavirus
- Updated guidance and regulations on Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- New TPAS page on Coronavirus and pensions
- TPO reopens for business
- Scams guidance from TPR and the PPF
- Temporary changes to pensions tax for returning public sector workers
- WM Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants (Judgment of the Supreme Court – 1 April 2020)
20th April 2020
- Coronavirus – Sackers response
- Treasury Direction on Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme published
- ABI warns against ‘pensions panic’
- Companies House eases strike-off policy and late filing penalties
- EIOPA statement on mitigating the impact of Coronavirus on the occupational pensions sector
- Updated HMRC Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme guidance
- RPI consultation extended
- ICO regulatory approach during the Coronavirus pandemic
- ICO blog on video conferencing
- PPF starts new insolvency risk scoring
- Updated Coronavirus guidance from TPR – salary sacrifice, certification and paying less than the statutory minimum
- Updated TPR guidance on DC scheme management and investment
- TPR blog on protecting savers
14th April 2020
- Coronavirus – Sackers response
- Automatic enrolment and pension contributions: COVID-19 guidance for employers
- FCA issues Coronavirus guidance and delays retirement outcomes review and platform switching remedies
- FCA 2020/21 business plan and fees and levies consultation
- MAPS report on pensions dashboards
- PLSA urges pension schemes to “put companies on watch” over Coronavirus response
- TPR extends deadline for DB funding code consultation
- TPR update on reporting duties and enforcement activity
6th April 2020
- Coronavirus – Sackers response
- April changes round-up
- New legislation published
- Deadline extended for climate-related risk consultation
- EIOPA delays consultation deadlines
- ESMA report on central clearing solutions for pension scheme arrangements
- FCA letter on investment pathways and DB transfers
- FCA updated guidance on Coronavirus
- Updated guidance on Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for furloughed workers
- Deadline extended for consultation excluding pensions from dormant assets scheme
- Countdown Bulletin 52 – April 2020
- HMRC newsletter on Managing Pension Schemes Service
- Guidance on good practice for virtual board and committee meetings and new legislation on AGMs
- Updated PPF compensation cap
- PPF business plan for 2020/21
- PPI briefing note on how changes to price indices could affect DB schemes
- New TPR Coronavirus guidance on scheme administration
- TPR blog on Coronavirus
- Savers urged: “stay calm and don’t rush financial decisions”, despite Coronavirus
30th March 2020
- Coronavirus – Sackers response
- Coronavirus Act 2020 receives royal assent and guidance published on furloughed workers
- General levy increase revoked
- New standard lifetime allowance confirmed
- Companies House grants extension on company accounts
- BEIS committee launches inquiry on audit reform
- EIOPA publishes model pension benefit statements
- FCA delays Directory of Certified and Assessed Persons
- FCA delays changes to DB transfer rules
- FRC publishes final strategy and budget for 2020/21
- Joint statement by FRC, FCA and PRA
- HMRC issues pension schemes newsletter 118
- ICO on coronavirus
- PASA extends DB transfers code consultation
- PASA launches COVID-19 guidance for administrators
- PASA announces new cybercrime and fraud working group
- PLSA publish COVID-19 resources
- PPF paying another group of members affected by Hampshire ruling
- New TPR guidance on COVID-19
- TPO focus on existing queries and complaints
- McCloud and Sargeant: update on action to address unlawful age discrimination