The FCA’s 360-page consultation on a motor finance commission scheme, published last week, is very clearly designed to protect the regulator from a Judicial Review.But my reading of the proposals is that the FCA would have failed to follow the right procedures, and be exposed to a JR risk, if it were to finalise the scheme based on its current proposals, because there is a key missing link in its analysis: the lack of a basis for rebuttal for cases where the customer paid a c

Since July, most asset finance brokers who have been paying the minimum annual FCA fees of around £600 (including various extras) have...