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The Top Class Wednesday Update is a little bit worried about Haaland

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By Mike Barrett
| The Lang Cat
Greetings – Mike here. Mark is currently residing in the home of losing finalists France, so throughout July you’ll be treated to a range of guest felines. My turn for week one… Lots of AI chat this week, with the publication of the FCA’s Mills Review into the impact of AI on retail financial services, launched at an event in London. As you would expect for such an important event the FCA needed to find a suitably cool and trendy venue, so naturally they chose one we had occupied two weeks ago.
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The Top Class Wednesday Update is taps-aff

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By Mike Barrett
| The Lang Cat
Greetings – Mike here. I hope you are all staying nice and hydrated. About a million years ago, back in my Skandia days, I used to help look after a piece of CD-ROM (look it up kids) software called U-Select. It had the slightly annoying “feature” of occasionally bricking your PC as you attempted to install it, but if you managed to get over that hurdle it was genuinely groundbreaking.
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The Top Class Wednesday Update is never simple

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By Mike Barrett
| The Lang Cat
Greetings. Mike here to take you through all the highlights from the FCA’s latest CP, CP26/10 – “Simplifying the Pension and Investment Advice Rules” After enjoying the irony of a 166-page document all about simplification, the first skim read generated mostly positive scribblings on my notepad. You can read the full details from the FCA here. Those nice folk at Citywire have described this paper as “landmark proposals”, and as is normally the case, they are right.
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