The Personal Finance Society (PFS) has today (19 February) launched the Proficiency+ Consumer Duty competency diagnostic tool, aimed at enabling firms to pinpoint training needs.
The tool, which is aligned with the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) Consumer Duty, is the latest addition to the organisation's Consumer Duty Resource Hub. Don MacIntyre, interim chief executive, PFS, said: "We have developed the tool with practitioners and against real world scenarios to ensure that all who use it can take tangible steps towards raising industry standards, building public trust and facilitating the cultural shifts outlined in the FCA's Consumer Duty guidelines." Firms can utilise situational judgement tests (SJTs) with the tool by evaluating employees' capacity t...
To continue reading this article...
Join COVER for free
- Unlimited access to real-time news, key trend analysis and industry insights.
- Stay on top of the latest developments around health and wellbeing, diversity and inclusion and the cost of living crisis.
- Receive breaking news stories straight to your inbox in the daily newsletter.
- Members only access to monthly programme 'The COVER Review'
- Be the first to hear about our CPD accredited events and awards programmes.