Cobra Compliance: Phishing e-mail addressed to regulated firms

If you have recently received an email from Pragati Samnotre, a Senior Supervision Associate at the FCA, reminding your firm to update its firm details please be aware this is a Scam and is not from the FCA.

From January 2020, regulated firms have been required to review and confirm the accuracy of their firm details annually, in line their Accounting Reference Date (ARD).

This needs to be done using the Connect System. Even if the details have not changed from the previous year, firms will still need to log onto Connect and confirm that they are up to date.

Recently this requirement has been the basis of a scam . . .

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