Regulation

Crippling FSCS levies: Know why you're paying, know how to stop

All advisory firms face the prospect of an interim levy from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) in 2015-2016 following a swell of claims related to self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs).

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning against a commodity firm it believes is providing financial services without authorisation.

A clampdown on suspected tax avoidance among taxpayers with rapidly rising wealth has netted HMRC an extra £11.5m since it began targeting the group in 2012, according to calculations.

Does a percentage-of-assets adviser fee model encourage contingent charging? Do fixed fees represent the ‘modern, professional way' to charge?

Financial advisers are recommending foreign exchange (FX) providers without knowing how much their clients will be charged, according to an industry expert.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has handed Deutsche Bank a £227m fine, its largest ever for LIBOR and EURIBOR-related misconduct because the bank tried to hamper investigations by misleading the regulator.

Merrill Lynch International (MLI) has been fined £13.2m by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for incorrectly reporting millions of transactions

A UK financial trader has been arrested over claims by the US that he helped cause the 2010 Wall Street "flash crash".

The regulator has frozen the assets of a property fund that it suspects is an elaborate scam.