Fleet UK is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to provide credit broking services. Fleet UK is a credit broker, not a lender.  Fleet UK is fully committed to a positive compliance culture and to the adherence of the Consumer Duty and Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) rules as stipulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

We aim to ensure that we consistently deliver fair outcomes to our customers and take responsibility to ensure that all colleagues working at Fleet UK are aware of the TCF outcomes and deliver a high level of customer service to our customers.

Consumer Duty

The FCA released their final guidance on Consumer Duty in July 2022, which aims to set higher and clearer standards for consumer protection across financial services.

The Duty requires companies to put the needs of the consumer first and produce communications that consumers can understand, provide fair-value products and services that meet consumer needs and provide consumer support when they need it.

The Consumer Duty is a consumer principle that requires firms to act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers.

It applies to the regulated activities and ancillary activities of all firms authorised under FSMA, the Payment Services Regulations 2017 and E-money Regulations 2011, in relation to products and services affecting prospective and actual retail customers.

Fleet UK has considered the needs, characteristics, and objectives of our customers – including those with characteristics of vulnerability, at every stage of the customer journey.

The objective of the Consumer Duty rules is to set higher and clearer standards to protect consumers in retail financial services and ensure that firms put the needs of their customers first by ensuring effective competition. We commit to providing transparent information and sustainable services that empower consumers to make responsible choices, contributing to a better world.

Consumer Duty Rules

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rules can be grouped into three parts:

• A new Consumer Principle that requires firms to act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers.
• Cross-cutting rules providing greater clarity on our expectations under the new Principle and helping firms interpret the four outcomes.
• Rules relating to the four outcomes under the Consumer Duty. These represent key elements of the firm-consumer relationship which are instrumental in helping to drive good outcomes for customers.

Consumer Principle

The Consumer Principle requires firms to act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers. These outcomes relate to:

• products and services
• price and value
• consumer understanding
• consumer support

Cross-Cutting Rules

There are ‘cross-cutting’ rules which clarify the FCA’s expectations under the newly introduced Principle and link to the four desired outcomes.

The cross-cutting rules instruct companies to:

• Act in good faith
• Avoid causing foreseeable harm.
• Enable and support retail customers.

The Four Outcomes

In line with existing requirements in the FCA Handbook (Treating Customers Fairly Rules, for example), the FCA has introduced new rules relating to the ‘four outcomes’, which the FCA hope will result from the observance of the new Consumer Duty:

• Products and services – these rules focus on the “design, approval, marketing and ongoing management of products and services throughout their lifecycle”.

• Price and value – firms are required to carry out value assessments to ensure that customers are receiving fair value, in terms of price and overall value.

• Consumer understanding – these rules apply to all communication to ensure consumers can make informed decisions with understandable information.

• Consumer support – firms must ensure they provide support to the customer throughout their relationship and the customer journey to fulfil the Consumer Principle.

As part of our commitment to the Consumer Duty rules from the Financial Conduct Authority, we have developed our core principles:

Core Principles:

1. Transparency: Ensuring clear and accurate information is provided to customers, empowering you to make informed decisions about our products and services.
2. Accessibility: Making our products and services accessible to diverse customer groups while maintaining affordability and inclusivity.
3. Feedback and Improvement: Actively seeking and responding to customer feedback to continually improve our offerings and consumer experience.

Our Vision

To be an innovative, groundbreaking business that promotes consumer duty that ensures our products and services positively impact to its audience and environment.

Our Mission

We commit to delivering transparent information and providing products and services that empower customers to make responsible choices.