On February 20, 2024, the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2024 was published. It came into force on March 11, 2024.
The Order makes "Operating a pensions dashboard service" that connects to the Money and Pensions Service dashboards digital architecture a new FCA-regulated activity.
The Pensions Dashboards Programme has published a blog providing an outline of the central digital architecture which connects pensions providers and schemes with pensions dashboards. The blog covers the three services of the central digital architecture which facilitate the exchange of pensions data: the identity service; the consent and authorisation service; and the pensions finder service.