DPB (Investment Business) Handbook
The DPB (Investment Business) Handbook provides full details of ICAEW's licensing arrangements.
This includes:
- the agreement between the firm and ICAEW for a licence;
- the regulated activities that can be conducted under a licence; and
- how regulated work should be conducted.
- DPB (Investment Business) Handbook – effective from 1 October 2018 to 31 May 2023
New DPB (Investment Business) Handbook effective 1 June 2023
The regulations have been updated due to changes to ICAEW’s disciplinary framework. The amendments are consequential changes only. (For example, some committee names and references to specific Disciplinary Bye-laws have been updated.)
- DPB (Investment Business) Handbook effective 1 June 2023
Archive
- DPB (Investment Business) Handbook – effective from 1 April 2016 until 1 October 2018
- Changes to the DPB (Investment Business) Handbook from 1 April 2007
The implementation of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) in the UK means that changes have had to be made to the DPB (Investment Business) Handbook, effective from 1 October 2018. These changes have been approved by the Financial Conduct Authority.
For background on the IDD see: