The ifs School of Finance, the provider of qualifications to the financial services industry, will be freezing the prices of all their regulatory qualifications until 2008.
The freeze will apply to market leading qualifications such as the Certificate in Mortgage Advice and Practice Advanced CeMAP the Certificate in Regulated Equity Release , the Certificate for Financial Advisers (CeFA) and the Certificate in Regulated General Insurance (CeRGI).
This means that the cost will remain at 130 per module, including a twelve-month registration, learning manual and the initial examination.
The ifs School of Finance ordinarily introduces an inflationary price rise in September each year but will not be doing so in 2007.
“The main factor in reaching this decision is that the Financial Services Authority will be simplifying their handbook at the end of the year which is likely to result in significant syllabus changes across our range of regulatory qualifications,” says Mark Roberts Head of Financial Regulation at the ifs School of Finance.