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© Reuters. FILE IMAGE: A lady feeds birds on the bank of the river Thames with London’s financial district seen in the background, in the middle of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in London
By Huw Jones
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s scheme for compensating customers hit by financial company failures has actually set itself a billion-pound ($ 1.37 billion) budget for the coming year to manage a most likely rise in collapses due to COVID-19
The Financial Solutions Compensation Scheme’s (FSCS) budget plan of 1.04 billion pounds for the 2021/22 financial year that begins in April is its greatest in 6 years.
The FSCS likewise said it would include 78 million pounds to the present year’s budget plan – a lower than expected increase – due to more firms stopping working, pushing the overall for 2020/21 to 700 million pounds.
The body is responsible for compensation plans for the Financial Conduct Authority, which warned this month that around 4,000 financial companies in Britain were at “heightened threat” of collapsing due to fallout from the pandemic.
The FSCS, which is financed by a levy on monetary companies, also anticipates more claims for intricate pension recommendations, and further failures in operators of self-invested person pensions (SIPPS).
” In any other sector, a projection for settlement of over one billion pounds would be the focus of nationwide scandal,” stated Tim Fassam, director of government relations and policy at PIMFA, a trade body for monetary advisors.
” This is a further indication that the cost of payment is truly out of control.” Reform is required in how the FSCS is moneyed so that the “polluter pays”, Fassam included.
The FCA is currently considering whether to force firms that give investors bad advice to bear the expense, rather than the present system of all firms breaking into a main pot.
” I hear and share concern that the cost of the levy is expensive and the pressure this places on many companies,” said Caroline Rainbird, chief executive of the FSCS.
Apart from COVID-related failures, the FSCS also deals with a possible bill to compensate 11,600 financiers who lost 237 million pounds due to the collapse of the London Capital & Financing mutual fund.
The FSCS remains in talks with the finance ministry over payment for LCF investors beyond what it has actually currently paid out.
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