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Money Marketing (28/01/2025) - Barerock enhances vulnerability support for advice firms
BareRock adds Comentis to Risk Mitigation panel


Motor Finance Online (18/09/24) - Automotive firms failing to identify vulnerable customers: Comentis
The duty of care assessment company, Comentis , has released data showing a significant gap between the number of vulnerable customers...

Money Marketing (19/11/24) - Advise Wise streamlines support for vulnerable clients
Advise Wise launches Comentis integration for all users
Latest Articles

A Best Practice Guide: our five top tips when working with vulnerable clients
In March 2024, the FCA announced that it will be conducting a new review into firms’ understanding and response to the needs of...

Why identification is so crucial in supporting vulnerable clients
With nearly a year having passed since Consumer Duty came into effect, we regularly hear how pleased firms are with the interventions...

What’s the difference between a vulnerability and a vulnerable circumstance?
With six months under our belts since the implementation of the FCA’s Consumer Duty, many firms have implemented processes that will...


Vulnerable clients, the cost of living crisis and the new Consumer Duty: an update from the FCA
By now, I think we are all aware of the importance of checking with our clients for signs of financial vulnerability, but did you know...

5 top things to do once you have identified a vulnerable customer
So, you’ve identified a circumstance that you think might be making your client vulnerable. What do you do now? Here are 5 top tips for...

Five common mistakes made by Mental Capacity Assessors
In my experience as quality monitoring team leader, having reviewed and supported over 500 mental capacity assessments for many different...

Resilience and Mental Capacity
It's a well-known fact that resilience and mental health are closely connected. Good resilience helps promote good mental health and poor...

Five ways IFA's can look after their mental health, so they can in turn spot vulnerable clients
Our lives have been under a great deal of pressure over the last few years. What with dealing with the impact of Covid at home and within...

What does 'Mental Health' mean?
‘Mental Health’ is one of those phrases that has become common place and thankfully is something that society in general is now more...

Top 5 challenges faced by clinical staff in identifying capacity issues in their patients
As we know, the Mental Capacity Act (2005) provided us with a theoretical framework for the assessment of mental capacity. However,...

Top 10 Tips for Reducing your Patients' Stress during a Mental Capacity Assessment
Having your mental capacity assessed can be an intimidating experience, no matter who you are. Even if you know why an assessment is...


New Equity Release Assessment launched with SimplyBiz Mortgages
As part of our ongoing drive to create more sector specific assessments, we are delighted to announce the launch of our latest assessment...

Tenet Compliance Services partners with Comentis
We are delighted to announce our partnership with Tenet Group who have selected us to help their DA firms identify and support vulnerable...


Comentis Joins Association of Professional Compliance Consultants
The team at Comentis are delighted to have joined the APCC, and we are looking forward to collaborating with the UK’s leading compliance...


Why Advisers still need to adapt processes
In Tim's latest blog, he explores how wider changes in society have accelerated the likelihood of clients being in vulnerable...
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