Last month continued the ongoing debate around the Government’s Call for Evidence on Improving the Home Buying Process, specifically its own response to what the industry had told it. We were lucky to have Matt Prior from the MHCLG deliver a presentation at May’s MCM/AMM and there is a great deal to be positive about […]
The Bank of England has asked us to share this message with members. Together with many other countries, the UK payments industry (CHAPS, Faster Payments, Bacs) is moving to the global standard for payments messaging: ISO 20022. This new messaging standard allows a greater amount of data to be sent in a clearly defined and […]
April was a significant month for the conveyancing profession as we had the first response from the Government on its own Call for Evidence. The CA welcomed a lot of the measures announced, but perhaps we would have liked to see some further ‘mandation’ particularly in terms of the provision of upfront information. Alongside this […]
The Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has today (25th April 2018) revealed the third edition of its Conveyancing Protocol. The Protocol, initially launched in 2013 and updated in 2016, is the result of Association members, panel management companies, and stakeholders working together to produce a document that outlines best […]
The Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has today (18th April 2018) revealed a revised version of its Cyberfraud and Fraud Protocol which seeks to provide CA member firms with practical information on how criminals operate and the measures they, and their staff, can take to avoid being victims of […]
The Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has today (10th April 2018) welcomed the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government’s response to its Call for Evidence on ‘Improving the home buying and selling process’. The document sets out the Government’s ‘Plan of Action’ to reduce the stress, the time, […]
March was certainly a mixed bag in terms of the weather conditions we saw hit right across the country with many employees struggling through snow in order to fulfil their client’s needs and secure their exchanges/completions. Without knowing the numbers yet it will be interesting to see just how the weather impacted on transactions but […]
The Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has today (22nd March 2018) announced two new Affiliate members, reallymoving and Redbrick Solutions, have joined with immediate effect after member review at the CA Management Committee Meeting in February. reallymoving – www.reallymoving.com – was launched in 1999 and is the UK’s leading […]
The Conveyancing Association (CA), the leading trade body for the conveyancing industry, has today (6th March 2018) announced full details of its events for 2018 including a new venue for its Annual Conference & Dinner which takes place in December. After three years at Chelsea Football Club, Stamford Bridge in London, the CA’s next Annual […]
February saw our first Management Committee and All-Member Meetings of the year held in the wonderful surroundings of the Long Room at Lord’s Cricket Ground. Cricketing metaphors abounded and there was a certainly a number of strong innings’ recorded especially with a number of panel debates focusing on key areas of interest such as referral […]
