Related provisions for MCOB 5.3.1
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(1) This chapter applies if a firm:(a) makes a personal recommendation to a customer to enter into a home finance transaction2; or2(b) provides information to a customer that is specific to the amount to be provided on a particular home finance transaction2, including information provided in response to a request from a customer; or2(c) provides the means for a customer to make an application to it;in connection with entering into, or agreeing to enter into, a home finance transaction
(1) MCOB 5.1.3 R means that this chapter applies where the customer can apply to enter into a home finance transaction2. This includes circumstances where, for example, the means to apply is provided in person, by telephone, through a website or through an application pack sent through the post.2(2) The effect of this chapter is to require a customer to be provided with key information about a home finance transaction before he submits an application to a home finance provide
The effect of article 28A of the Regulated Activities Order would normally mean that arrangements made by a party to a home finance transaction3 would not fall within the home finance activity3 of arranging. So in a direct sale, a home finance provider3 would not be carrying on the regulated activity of arranging but, where the transaction proceeds to completion, would instead be involved in a regulated activity comprising entering into a home finance transaction3. However, the
The purpose of this chapter is
to implement article 3.6 of the Insurance
Mediation Directive in relation to insurance
undertakings. The provisions of this chapter have been extended
to home
finance providers1 in relation to insurance
mediation activity, and to insurance
undertakings and home finance providers in relation to home
finance mediation activity1, to ensure that firms using
these services are treated in the same way and to ensure that clients have the same protection.
If a firm ceases to be a participant firm part way through a financial year of the compensation scheme:(1) it will remain liable for any unpaid levies which the FSCS has already made on the firm;1(2) the FSCS may make a levy upon it (which may be before or after the firmhas ceased to be a participant firm, but must be before it ceases to be an authorised person) for the costs which it would have been liable to pay had the FSCS made a levy on all participant firms at the time