Regulation

The Financial Service Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is in the process of setting up an in-house legal panel from which it plans to buy legal services work for up to £50m, tender documents have revealed.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) expects to pay out £60m in claims against failed ARM bonds distributor Catalyst Investment Group this year.

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) technical specialist Rory Percival has denied there are "significant" differences in what the regulator thinks is adequate due diligence undertaken by firms and how the ombudsman finds in dispute cases.

Fined Chase de Vere's three big mistakes

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Chase de Vere Independent Financial Advisers £560,000 for failures surrounding the sale of Keydata products.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is considering a number of recommendations on how financial services firms can improve the way they handle complaints, including removing a rule stating that not all gripes must be reported to it.

The Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) is calling on the regulator to implement "radical, structural reform" of how fund managers charge investors, in a damning report on the problem of "cost opacity and control" in the industry.

Are advisers being forced to go above and beyond FCA requirements?

Advisers are less interested in developing online advice solutions for their clients than they were six months ago, research suggests.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) was born in the aftermath of a crisis, so that is all it knows, but it has laid the groundwork for making markets work well again, its chairman John-Griffith Jones is expected to say in a speech on Thursday.