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Certification Function CF Certificate

[Insert Organisation Name] (‘we’ or ‘us’ or ‘our’) are committed to complying with the regulatory requirements set out in the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SM&CR) and take the assessment and verification of any employee undertaking a SMF or CF seriously. We have a robust and compliant assessment, due diligence and verification program in place for Senior Managers and those performing Certification Functions and review all roles and certificates annually in line with the regulatory requirements.

We recognise that it is our responsibility to ensure that employees holding Certification Functions are fit and proper and have been assessed as such in accordance with the FCA’s Handbook requirements. We confirm that an employee will only perform an FCA Certification Function if they have a certificate issued by us to perform that function.

This certificate verifies that the named employee has undergone a thorough due diligence check, has successfully passed our fitness and propriety assessment and has been approved to perform the function to which this certificate relates.

This is to certify that [insert employee name] has been approved by [Insert Organisation Name] to perform the below certification function(s).

This certificate is valid for 12 months from the date specified below, at which time the employee will be reassessed (if applicable) under our due diligence and fitness and propriety assessment criteria.

ISSUED TO: [name of certified employee]                            DATE OF ISSUE: [date certificate issued]

DATE OF FIT ASSESSMENT: [FIT assessment date]                ASSESSED BY: [name of FIT assessor]           

ISSUED BY: [name of certificate issuer]                                 ISSUER SIGNATURE: __________________