UK Conduct Regulator Urges Firms to Return Client Money if Reinvestment in Short Term is Unlikely

The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published a Dear CEO letter sent to U.K.-regulated firms providing non-discretionary investment services. The FCA letter makes clear that, where firms’ clients have increased the level of client money held with a firm, the firm should return client money that is unlikely to be reinvested in the short term. Many firms have reported an increase in client money levels as clients respond to the COVID-19 situation. The FCA states that senior management at firms should consider whether it would be in the best interest of their clients to return money that isn’t likely to be reinvested in the short term.

View the Dear CEO letter.

Details of other regulatory responses to COVID-19 are available on our COVID-19 Research Center.

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