Regulation

Chancellor George Osborne should merge the incoming Financial Policy Committee (FPC) with the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to create a "single super-committee", it has been proposed.

Proposed changes to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), opening up eligibility to more parties, are likely to lead to increased compensation costs and higher levies.

Two financial advisers serving prison time for their roles in a £3m property scam have been ordered to pay back just £1 each.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is readying at least one 'mega fine' in the next three months as figures show it raised significantly less than usual in the first quarter of 2012.

Prudential has been forced on the defensive over an e-mail sent to thousands of staff in which a senior executive appears to make a series of disparaging remarks about FSA policies.

A land banking operation which was continuing the work of a business previously shut by the Insolvency Service has itself been wound up.

The FSA has stressed firms need to have robust controls and transparent product approval methods when developing retail structured products.

Former directors of failed banks could be banned from taking lucrative jobs in the City under plans being drawn up by the regulator.

George Osborne today delivered what he called "a Budget for working people". Here we pick the best quotations.....from the horse's mouth.

Insolvency practitioner Probitas has been instructed to begin winding up pension specialist Rockingham Independent.