UKAR ARena Issue 7: Winter 2013 | Page 9

Consumer Credit Regulation (CCR) “We’ve taken over Consumer Credit Regulation from the OFT and this will become effective from April 2014. Our approach will be different in several key areas: • We have more flexibility and greater rule-making powers, including the ability to ban products • We are better-resourced than the OFT in terms of people. We have retained a number of OFT staff and their expertise and recruited extra personnel • Potential for earlier intervention. We hope this will make a real difference