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th January 2021
8:01 am
The FCA’s analysis of the financial resilience of firms has signalled a coronavirus-driven market downturn may cause “significant numbers” of firms to fail over the next 12 months.
Advisers were among the 5,159 coronavirus financial resilience survey respondents in the “retail investments” sector, which also included platforms, Sipp operators, wealth managers and crowdfunders.
The regulator has excluded responses from the “pensions and retirement income” sector in the aggregated data it has published for its surveys to avoid firms being identified.
In response to the coronavirus crisis, the regulator has been monitoring the effects of the economic downturn on firms’ solvency.