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UK's Financial Conduct Authority Interest Rate Hedging Products Redress Scheme: Monthly Update

Date 08/05/2014

The latest figures

Click below to see the number of sales at each stage of the review. In response to feedback from customers, we have included granular information about sophisticated customers, customers who have not opted in to the review, and about the types of alternative products that some customers are being offered as redress.

Number of sales at each stage – overall view

Number of sales at each stage – bank-by-bank view

Progress by bank – projection vs actual

This table summarises the banks’ progress and the position at the end of April:

 

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

Joining the review 

 

Sophistication assessments completed

80%

90%

94%

98%

99%

100%

100%

100%

100%

Customers invited to join review

15,000

16,000

17,500

18,400

18,700

18,700

18,800

18,800

19,000

Overall customer opt-in rate

50%

65%

70%

76%

78%

81%

83%

84%

85%

Compliance

 

Compliance assessments complete (% of customers who have opted in)

8%

12%

25%

34%

48%

57%

75%

88%

94%

Overall rate of non-compliant sales

93%

95%

95%

95%

96%

96%

96%

94%

93%

Redress

 

Customers in redress phase

1,950

2,600

4,100

6,100

7,500

9,000

11,700

13,400

14,400

Redress determinations complete (including compliant and non-compliant sales where no redress is due)

500

950

1,850

3,300

5,200

7,000

9,400

11,100

13,300

Redress determination letters sent (including compliant and non-compliant sales where no redress is due)

250

500

1,300

2,600

4,600

6,400

8,400

10,500

12,800

Outcomes

 

Offers accepted (‘full tear up’ and alternative product offers)

10

32

125

547

1,040

2,092

3,430

4,573

5,732

Redress paid

£0.5m

£2.0

£15.3m

£81.2m

£158.6m

£306.3m

£482.0m

£598.4m

£797.6m

Outcomes where no redress is due (including compliant sales)

78

112

253

438

672

682

962

1,485

1,971

The latest figures show the banks’ reviews are nearing completion.

Around 13,000 customers (80%) have already received a redress determination. Bank of Ireland and Co-op have now completed their case reviews, while other banks remain on track to provide a redress determination to all customers within 12 months of starting their reviews. These banks are currently sending out more than 500 redress letters per week, and the customers who are still waiting should receive a letter in the next 2-6 weeks. 

RBS’ rate of completion is marginally behind their projected position but the bank has now completed all reviews and passed them on to the independent reviewer for approval. We meet regularly with RBS, currently more than once a week, to monitor its progress against forecasts and to ensure that the quality of customer outcomes is not being compromised. 

However, the banks’ ability to deliver against their projections also requires timely engagement from customers. We would like to encourage the 1,300 customers yet to opt-in to the review to do so as quickly as possible.   

Over the next few months the banks will continue sending out final reminders to customers to encourage as many as possible to participate, before the review is closed for new entrants.