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Senior Management Certification Regime Training
The Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) is a UK financial services regulation designed to protect consumers and strengthen market integrity by making senior managers more personally accountable for how all employees conduct themselves at work.
Our comprehensive SMCR training is produced in collaboration with industry experts Zishi.
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Benefits of our SMCR training
Our Senior Managers and Certification Regime training is designed to meet the needs of all types of financial services firms and deliver the highest quality training to ensure ongoing compliance.
Key benefits of our SMCR training include:
- Enhanced Leadership Skills: Learners develop essential leadership skills and a deeper understanding of strategic planning to drive organisational success.
- Ensure Risk Management and Compliance: Learners gain a thorough understanding of regulatory requirements, compliance obligations and the best practices relevant to senior management roles.
- Flexibility and Convenience: Access Learning allows your employees to study at their own pace and schedule from anywhere in the world. Our course materials and resources are available online, 24/7.
Features of our SMCR training
Customised pathways
Access Learning supports you with each pillar of the regime:
- Senior Manager’s Regime: for those in senior management functions.
- Certification Regime: for people who may have an impact on the firm's integrity.
- Conduct Rules: addressing the responsibility to provide role-related training to all those in scope.
Written in collaboration with experts
Working in collaboration with industry-leading experts, our online SMCR training enables users to select from one of over 50 examples to ensure they receive learning tailored to their role, demonstrating how the conduct rules will apply to them as part of the FCA's requirement.
Interactive learning modules
Our SMCR training encourages knowledge retention through interactive modules with scenario-based case studies. Using engaging eLearning formats helps to ensure compliance and is regularly updated to help learners maintain knowledge and protect the business.
Accessible anywhere on multiple devices
With our mobile friendly learning content employees can learn in a way that suits them, fitting their learning around busy schedules. Regardless of location or working hours, they have quick and easy access to their SMCR training, which they can pause and resume as needed for efficient completion.
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What’s covered in our SMCR training content?
Our SMCR training covers all aspects of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime, from introducing the regulations to the focused elements included within to deliver the highest standard of training.
Topics covered in this course include:
- The responsibilities map (RM)
- Statement of responsibilities
- Allocation of prescribed responsibilities
- The main aims for a Regulatory Framework
- The regimes within the framework... and much more…
Who is impacted by Senior Managers and Certification Regime?
- Limited scope firms
Exempt from some baseline requirements and typically have fewer Senior Management Functions (SMF). - Core firms
Required to comply with baseline requirements, including allocation of SMF and producing Statements of Responsibilities. - Enhanced firms
Firms whose size, complexity and potential impact on consumers or markets warrant greater attention. Extra requirements include Responsibilities Maps, ‘Overall Responsibility’ and Handover procedures.
Why choose Access Group for SMCR training?
Expertly curated content
Our SMCR training is created and updated in collaboration with industry experts to ensure learners receive the highest quality training and achieve their learning outcomes efficiently.
Continuous innovation
Our training is consistently updated to comply with the latest regulations from the FCA and PRA to ensure your business remains compliant.
Industry leaders
We’re the preferred training provider for the financial services industry, delivering cost-effective, targeted compliance training.
Content you can trust.
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Part of our market-leading Financial Services training suite
Our comprehensive, accredited Financial Services training covers a broad range of subjects to help businesses achieve and remain compliant, ultimately creating a great place to work for everyone.
Empowering employees to understand and adhere to relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards, this training reduces the risk of legal repercussions and safeguards the reputation and financial stability of your organisation, while ensuring fairness and equality for all within the organisation.
- A wide range of financial services compliance training courses included, addressing all aspects of financial services regulation in all sectors
- CPD accredited and produced and written by industry-specific subject matter experts
- Engaging and accessible content, including real-life scenarios and bitesize modules
- End of course assessments to ensure knowledge retention and provide effective reporting to governing bodies
- Robust reporting and powerful tracking to ensure compliance and peace of mind.
A holistic approach to financial services compliance, that includes not just SMCR training but a wide array of Governance, Risk and Compliance courses, is crucial for businesses in maintaining its reputation and building strong and successful teams.
See what training is included in our broader Compliance for Financial Services training suite.
The Senior Managers and Certification Regimes (SM&CR) reduce harm to consumers and protect market integrity.
FAQs
Here's some commonly asked questions:
What is SM&CR?
The Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) is a UK regulatory framework introduced to protect consumers and improve market integrity by making individuals, particularly senior managers, more accountable for their conduct.
Around 47,000 businesses currently fall under the scope of SM&CR.
The three key aspects of SM&CR are:
Senior Managers Regime: Focussing on senior management accountability, the Statement of Responsibilities outlines the specific responsibilities senior managers now have under the legislation.
Certification Regime: This element focuses on individuals in specific roles which could significantly impact the business who need to be certified as fit and proper.
Conduct Rules: These set out the expected behaviours of almost all employees.
Who can benefit from SMCR training
SMCR training can benefit primarily senior managers, certified staff and other staff requiring conduct rules training including those in specialised roles.
Overall, SMCR training can benefit all within the business as it helps the entire business uphold the standards required to comply with SMCR regulation.
What is an approved person under the senior management regime?
A person who has received direct approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to carry out one or more tasks on behalf of an authorised firm is referred to as an "approved person."
The FCA approves individuals for specific roles known as Senior Management Functions (SMFs).
The “approved person” criteria include the Fit and Proper test whereby a candidate's honesty, integrity and reputation are assessed, while compliance with conduct rules is also assessed.
Is this SMCR training accredited or certified?
Yes, all the training included within our governance, risk and compliance suite is CPD accredited and created and updated to the highest standards.
Is the training content updated regularly to reflect industry trends and regulations?
Yes, our training is regularly kept up to date and our industry experts ensure that our training always meets industry standards and regulations to ensure your business continues to remain compliant.
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