We’ve submitted our complaint to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)

As promised in last week’s blogs, we have now submitted our letter of complaint to the CMA. In case you’d like to borrow some or all of our words for your own complaint letter, the following is the content of our letter: We are a small financial services training provider called Bespoke Training Solutions. We […]

The introduction of CII’s exam packages makes headline news…

In case you haven’t seen it, Financial Adviser published an article yesterday about the CII’s recent policy changes relating to their study and exam options. Here’s a link to the article: https://www.ftadviser.com/your-industry/2018/01/17/cii-under-fire-for-changes-to-exam-package/?page=1 As many of you will be aware, BTS have been commenting on the CII exam changes and the introduction of compulsory exam packages, […]

R05 Workshop Soundbites

BTS have recently ran a series of R05 workshops for one of our wealth management clients. This involved two 2-day workshops for four separate groups, Edinburgh, London, Solihull and Manchester. The attendees were mainly second careerists with little or no financial services experience. R05 is always talked about as an ‘easier’ exam in the RO set. […]

What can help me pass the CII’s RO1 exam?

We are now into 2018, and facing a number of Chartered Insurance Institute changes that make passing any of their exams a whole lot tougher. If you are not aware of these changes they are: No CII face to face workshops The CII have completely pulled out of offering learners any workshop support. This is […]