How Merrin helps with AR oversight

A principal needs to know what is happening across its AR network and keep a record of how it has responded. That work soon becomes difficult to follow when firm details sit in a spreadsheet, declarations arrive by email and review decisions are kept somewhere else.

Merrin brings those records and tasks together. It helps with collection, checks and preparation, so your team can spend more time looking at the findings and deciding what to do.

Start with the firm and its people

Onboarding gives the firm and each Individual a list of the information they need to provide. Firm details, ownership information, declarations and supporting evidence go into the relevant record. Your team can see what is missing before starting the review.

Fit & Proper assessments keep declarations, checks and findings with the assessor’s conclusion. Collection can be automated. The assessment still needs a person to consider the evidence and record their decision.

Keep checking between reviews

Merrin monitors Companies House, the FCA Register and submitted returns. Findings become issues against the firm or Individual, with an owner and a record of the investigation.

Scheduled returns put routine collection into the AR Portal. Risk and completeness show which firms have missing information, overdue work or unresolved issues, and the reasons behind their assessment.

Prepare the review properly

A review keeps a snapshot of the information your approvers considered. Each decision stays with that record, even when the firm’s details change later.

AI can help summarise the information and suggest points to check. Your team checks the findings and makes the decision. An approval needs a clear basis in the evidence.

Follow the filing through

Where a review requires an FCA filing, Merrin prepares the filing information and shows what is missing. Your team submits it on Connect and records the reference, correspondence and outcome.

The filing remains linked to the reviewed information. That makes it easier to explain what was submitted and why.

Keep the record as you go

Documents, checks, issues and approvals stay with the firm or Individual they concern. Keeping that history during the year gives the next review a useful starting point.

You can look through the features or schedule a demo to see how the process would fit your team. The roadmap sets out the planned work.