Financial services businesses have been told they will have to notify authorities if they lose customer data or suffer any data security breaches.

Policyholder protection will be at the heart of the Prudential Regulation Authority's (PRA) post-2012 supervision of insurance companies, a joint FSA and Bank of England paper outlines today.

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Cross-subsidisation within the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) should end, according to some respondents to the Treasury's consultation on the future of financial regulation.

The Financial Services Authority has agreed to temporary measures for HSBC to deal with payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints.

A Havant-based bank with just over 250 customers and around £7.4m in deposits has gone into insolvency, with the FSCS set to compensate victims.

Mervyn King has claimed low capital requirements and inadequate limits on leverage have been the most "tragic" aspects of financial regulation.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has struck a deal with a fraud prevention association to aid its approvals process.

Last night's Panaroma expose on financial advice within banks certainly got our readers talking.

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