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How Cognexo increases awareness and readiness for new Consumer Duty regulations

The FCA's Consumer Duty regulations outline how consumers should be treated by businesses. These changes impact any business that sells a product or service to a customer — not just within the financial industry. They focus particularly on how businesses support their more vulnerable customers.

Three main areas of Consumer Duty:

  • The Consumer Principle — firms must deliver good outcomes for retail customers; higher standards on how firms conduct themselves
  • Cross-Cutting Rules — act in good faith towards retail customers; avoid causing foreseeable harm; enable and support retail customers to pursue their financial objectives
  • Four outcomes relating to: (1) products and services, (2) price and value, (3) consumer understanding, (4) consumer support

How Cognexo helps prepare employees

Cognexo Learning helps organisations make sound, evidence-based decisions as they train and develop teams to ensure compliance. Their approach includes:

  • Undertaking a GAP analysis of products
  • Identifying and engaging all relevant internal stakeholders
  • Preparing and fostering a culture to effectively implement Consumer Duty
  • Developing channels of communication across all external stakeholders
  • Creating and implementing robust project governance
  • Allocating responsibility to a board champion for Consumer Duty
  • Developing policies and processes around data gathering and MI
  • Developing a robust monitoring, governance and oversight regime

Cognexo provides timely and accurate evidence of how well employees understand what is expected of them. Bite-size, unobtrusive and structured to quickly embed learning, it constantly adapts to the needs of individual learners, ensuring knowledge gaps are filled across a diverse group of learners.

Building an inclusive culture of learning

Cognexo makes learning personal — training on Consumer Duty is relevant to how employees learn but also meaningful in terms of their individual roles. Rather than one-size-fits-all, it recognises that inclusive, personalised learning reflecting the diversity of teams is the path to engagement and ultimately successful compliance.

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