All RICS-regulated firms must have adequate and appropriate professional indemnity arrangements under the requirements of our Rules of Conduct for Firms: find out more, including about PII and valuation guidance, assigned risk pools, and our member Support Service.

We are committed to communicating effectively with our global profession in delivering regulation. We have a standard approach to the use of different languages. This approach takes into account the need for consistency while also facilitating local language needs where possible. We take the following language approach to communicating with regulated professionals and firms.

In 2008 regulations changed the traditional relationship between agents and their seller client. Find out how to comply.

The RICS Designated Professional Body Scheme for General Insurance Mediation (UK) was approved by HM Treasury and enables us to regulate our members for general insurance mediation activities, on behalf of the UK Financial Conduct Authority.

Fraud, both internal and external, is a real risk to business. Planning how to prevent and recover from fraud should form part of your overall business risk-assessment.

Research by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimated that the amount of money laundered, globally, in one year could be between 2 to 5% of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), equivalent to $800 billion to $2 trillion US dollars.

When a regulated firm closes there is a requirement on the principals of the firm to inform RICS of the closure and provide information to demonstrate that the firm has closed in an orderly way.