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January 28

Company with obsolete & current FCA entry - reason for switch

The British Financial Conduct Authority lists a specific company with a "No longer authorised" entry and a current "Authorised""Authorised entry with different reference numbers. Apparently there was a switch from the former status to the current one on 1 July 2011. But what might be the reason for this switch? A change of address? Or what else? --KnightMove (talk) 18:59, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

You appear to have accidentally given the same link twice. The second link, to the authorised company, should be this. DuncanHill (talk) 13:47, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Of course, thank you & sorry. --KnightMove (talk) 02:47, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

A check on the Companies House website does show a change of address - but otherwise it appears to be the same company continuing. The FCA listings do show different categories - with the earlier one categorised as Firm, while the current one is E-money. This probably indicates that the company changed the type or range of financial services provided, so had to change their FCA registration to reflect this. Wymspen (talk) 16:36, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

A firm it is in either case, and it did issue electronic money in rather the same way before. But since posing the question I've realised that the UK has introduced a new law in the year the switch occurred, the Electronic Money Regulations 2011. Certainly the company needed additional permissions to comply with the new law. However I still don't exactly understand why this required a change in the entry. --KnightMove (talk) 02:47, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Sebastian Kurz vs Angela Merkel

Politically, in what issues could they conflict? They both seem to be politically conservative Germans (well, except Kurz who is only kinda German), but why aren't they real allies? --Hofhof (talk) 21:44, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Um, they're separate countries; unless you're talking EU policy, why would they be engaged either in conflict or alliance? Nyttend (talk) 22:55, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

I know who they are. And yes, this is obviously EU policy.--Hofhof (talk) 13:12, 29 January 2018 (UTC)