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Sheila Kumar. Chief Executive Council for Licensed Conveyancers. The Council for Licensed Conveyancers. Protecting the public interest Providing consumer choice Promoting effective competition. CLC has fostered. Better regulation Better value for money for consumers Better service.
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Sheila Kumar Chief Executive Council for Licensed Conveyancers
The Council for Licensed Conveyancers • Protecting the public interest • Providing consumer choice • Promoting effective competition
CLC has fostered • Better regulation • Better value for money for consumers • Better service
An evolving market • Very fragmented • Some firms poised for rapid growth • Competition hotting up
Not just a policeman • Understand economic pressures • Want to assist compliance, not catch people out • Want to support good business decisions
Our strategy • Concentrating on strengths • Specialist regulator of specialist lawyers • Improving the regulatory framework to support innovation and growth
Referral Fees • Undertook thorough review • No regulatory case for a ban • Increased transparency
Lenders Panels • Plethora of overlapping schemes • Lack of clarity from lenders • Double regulation
What’s the impact of what’s going on? • Adds quasi-regulatory burdens • Removes consumer choice • Stifles innovation, competition and growth, skewing the market
What lenders tell us • Lenders have confidence in our regulation • LCs have high standards of fraud prevention • Concerned about workloads in a rising market
My hope • Work together to tackle fraud • Regulate once and cleanly • Support consumer choice, innovation and growth
Keep in touch • LinkedIn, Twitter (@CLConveyancers) • CEO@clc-uk.org