Our Remuneration
We, John Mullane Mortgage & Financial Services Ltd t/a Mullane Financial Services act as intermediary (Broker) between you, the consumer, and the product provider with whom we place your business.
The Background
Pursuant to provision 4.58A of the Central Bank of Ireland’s September 2019 Addendum to the Consumer Protection Code, all intermediaries, must make available in their public offices, or on their website if they have one, a summary of the details of all arrangements for any fee, commission, other reward or remuneration provided to the intermediary which it has agreed with its product producers.
What is Commission?
For the purpose of this document, commission is the payment earned by the intermediary for work undertaken on behalf of both the provider and the consumer. The amount of commission is generally directly related to the quantity or value of the products sold.
There are different types of commission models:
- Single Commission model: where payment is made to the intermediary shortly after the sale is completed and is based on a percentage of the premium paid/amount invested/amount borrowed
- Trail/Renewal Commission model: Further payments at intervals are paid throughout the life span of the product.
- Indemnity Commission: is the term used to describe a commission payment made before the commission is deemed to be ‘earned’. Indemnity commission may be subject to a claw back (see below) if the consumer lapses or cancels the product before the commission is deemed to be earned.
Other forms of indemnity commission are advances of commission for future sales granted to intermediaries in order to assist with set up costs or business development.
