The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has launched an investigation into the conduct of former Bradford & Bingley group finance director Chris Willford.

Scammers have cloned advice firm Chelsea Financial Services and are operating under the name Chelsea Financial, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned.

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) is preparing to challenge the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) this week over what it considers inconsistent case verdicts on advisers.

Investment advisers may contribute almost £15m towards the day-to-day running of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) in 2014-2015.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned a scammer is operating practically on its doorstep under the name Brookes and Hargreaves.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed consultancy Promontory Financial Group and accountancy firm Mazars to lead its skilled persons (s166) review into the failures around the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) lending practices to small firms....

Banks will re-enter the advice space once the regulator has given a clear steer on simplified advice, Standard Life head of business solutions Innes Miller has suggested.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined a number of good and bad practices around inducements in its final guidance.

Key Investor Information Documents (KIID) are still heaving with jargon, despite being required to use language that is "clear, succinct and comprehensible", a survey among advisers suggests.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today laid out its final rules around adviser-provider inducements. Here IFAonline breaks down the paper into what the regulator deems acceptable - and what it definitely does not.