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October 1st, 2009 by tom | Filed under Daily News, Money Management, Mortgages, UK Bank Accounts, UK Banks, UK Credit cards, savings accounts.
The Financial Services Authority (FSI) recently announced that they will be taking a much closer look in the future at firms who provide financial services firms, In particular, they will be reviewing the methods used by these companies to market their payment protection insurance policies, (PPI) The FSI initiative is designed to curb continuing hard-sell tactics and miss-selling of the product.
PPI is designed to cover repayments on products bought on long term credit products, in the event that if the borrower is unable to do as a result of reduced earnings caused by accident, redundancy, sickness or to project the family in the event that the debtor passes away. Setting a precedent was the record £7 million pound imposed in October 2008 by the FSA on the Alliance & Leicester building society, for reported serious failings in procedures during recorded telephone conversations discussing PPI to prospective clients. .
The FSA are about to issue a series guidelines,- due to take effect by the end of the year that are designed to ensure that PPI sales will be handled properly and complaints will be at a minimum.
In addition, the FSA are liable to request that certain companies reassess 185,000 previously rejected customer complaints. The reason given is that the FSA complain that there are an excessively high number of complaints of rejected complaints by firms offering PPI. The average percentage level of rejected claims is around 60% with certain companies showing a reject rate of almost 100%.
Most PPI service providers, among them Lloyds Banking Group, the country’s biggest provider of PPI accounting for 40 percent of PPI contracts sold directly to borrowers have agreed to screen all such sales since July 2007.
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