Maintaining adequate financial resources is one of our Principles for Businesses. These pages contain information on our work looking at firms' financial resources as well as information on professional indemnity insurance.

Appointing an accountancy firm

This guide is designed to help you when appointing a firm of accountants. It highlights some of the questions and issues you might want to think about before using the services of a particular firm.
Appointing an accountancy firm

Financial resources: Good practice update

This fact sheet summarises our initial research into personal investment firms' financial resources and the requirement to hold sufficient capital to support operations. By having well-capitalised firms the risk of consumer losses through business failure is reduced as well as the subsequent burden on other firms.
Financial resources: good practice update

Professional indemnity insurance

This contains our guide to PII, our list of providers and frequently asked questions.

Buying professional indemnity insurance factsheet [PDF]
This factsheet is for you if you are a regulated firm that requires PII cover. It explains our rules for holding PII; the PII market; how to obtain PII; how to present your business to the PII market; and your options if you are having difficulty obtaining PII cover.

List of brokers & PI insurers
The information on this page is provided in good faith for information purposes only. It consists of information provided to us by the firms listed (who have consented to its publication).

Frequently asked questions