A description of the PLC Financial Services service.
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PLC Financial Services is an innovative web-based legal information service which enables financial services practitioners to keep up to date with developments in financial services law and practice.
Although primarily aimed at financial services lawyers (whether in private practice or in-house), PLC Financial Services is also a valuable resource for the wider community of financial services practitioners and regulatory specialists, including compliance officers and financial services consultants.
The content of the PLC Financial Services service falls under one or more of the following topic areas:
Approved persons regime.
Authorisation.
Banking.
Client assets.
Conduct of business.
Consumer credit.
Financial and corporate crime.
Financial promotion.
FSMA: introduction.
High level standards.
Insurance.
Investigations and enforcement.
Investment funds.
Market conduct.
Miscellaneous: financial services
Payment services and settlement systems.
Prudential regulation.
Regulated activities.
Training and competence.
PLC Financial Services subscribers also have access to PLC Corporate's materials on the Listing, Prospectus and Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
PLC Financial Services comprises:
A daily and weekly e-mail service.
A bank of practice notes, trackers, checklists and flowcharts which are maintained.
For a full list of the maintained materials available on PLC Financial Services see: Practice note, Material available on PLC Financial Services (www.practicallaw.com/7-385-1560)
The email service covers:
Proposed, draft and new UK, EU and international legislation and regulations.
Consultation papers, policy statements, speeches and guidance from the government, the FSA and other relevant bodies.
Changes in market practice.
Updates are written by our Professional support team (www.practicallaw.com/8-201-7924), who monitor and review all relevant sources daily to identify developments. Unlike other know-how services we do not simply pass on raw information. We focus on the needs of the busy practitioner:
Updates include background information where relevant, always contain a summary and, where possible, analyse the practical impact of developments.
Updates are complete in themselves but include hypertext links to external source materials, other updates and practice notes, where appropriate.
Updates can be integrated with subscribers' internal briefings and marketing materials.
Practice notes contain concise, practical explanations of financial services law and regulation. For experienced lawyers, they provide up-to-date and reliable statements of law and practice, while junior lawyers can use them to gain an understanding of relevant areas not yet acquired through practice.
Practice notes are continually updated by our specialist and experienced professional support team as the relevant law and practice change.
The service is delivered through a web site using advanced technology specifically developed by PLC to provide a seamless source of managed know-how to the practitioner in an easy to access form:
Searching. All the text is fully searchable. Searches can be carried out across all material or restricted to a specified time period.
Index. Alternatively information can be accessed via the core topic headings on the PLC Financial services homepage.
Links. Frequent hypertext links guide users to further PLC materials and external sources.
Integration. Subscribers can integrate their own know-how materials closely with those of the service, whilst maintaining confidentiality. .
PLC Financial Services is a cost-effective resource for any lawyer or other financial services practitioner who needs to understand and stay up to date with the law relating to financial services regulation.
The service provided by PLC Financial Services is designed to:
Bring lawyers at all levels up to speed with new developments quickly and effectively.
Give lawyers greater capacity for fee-earning work.
Improve the quality, speed and accuracy of the service provided to clients.
Enable firms with existing professional support lawyers to focus their resources on developing know-how specific to their firms or clients, instead of more routine information gathering.
Focus attention on using know-how for marketing purposes and making a firm's practice more competitive.
The service provided by PLC Financial Services will enable other, non-legal financial services practitioners to:
Gain a thorough understanding of a wide range of areas covered by financial services law and regulation.
Stay up to date with key developments in financial services law and regulation.
Understand the practical implications of financial services law and regulation and key developments.
For more information about PLC Financial Services, or to request a free trial, please contact PLC on the PLC Helpline. (www.practicallaw.com/A17385).