Regulation

Ten of the biggest investment fines

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has indicated it plans to fine former Keydata chief executive Stewart Ford £75m and ban him from any role in financial services for failings related to the investments' sales and, ultimately, failure.

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An adviser fined and banned by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for recommending unsuitable investments to lower income clients is working as an adviser to expatriate clients in Dubai and the Middle East.

A victim of convicted fraudster financial adviser Chris Bladen is fighting banking giant HSBC for compensation, alleging the bank failed to recognise he 'forged' signatures on his account.

Advisers' contribution to funding government retirement guidance service Pension Wise should be reduced because they are not benefitting from its existence as much as anticipated, according to the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA)....

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned and fined a financial adviser for making unsuitable recommendations of high-risk and often unregulated investments.

Annuities have become the new focus for complaints according to figures from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), a year after the product was publicly abandoned by the Chancellor.

A man pretending to be from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is cold calling people in an attempt to defraud them, the regulator has warned.

More than 600 adviser firms have been declared in default by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) in the last five years - an average of almost 130 each year - as the impact of a number of high-profile investment failures continues to take...