Regulation

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is seeking to ban and fine an adviser £290,000 for a series of failings, including that he falsified the signatures of two clients to register them as 'sophisticated' investors.

How the regulator is striving to bust myths about its rules

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has so far paid out £21.2m in claims related to the collapse of adviser network Alpha 2 Omega (A2O) after finding widespread mis-selling of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS).

The Bank of England's Sir Jon Cunliffe has warned bankers they are paid too much and should expect a salary cut following a sharp drop in banks' profits.

HSBC is to review historical pension transfer cases to see if it is earning trail income for ongoing advice it is not delivering.

The former appointed representatives (ARs) of failed network Alpha 2 Omega (A2O) are facing multi-million pound legal claims as the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) tries to claw back the money it paid to mis-sold investors.

Halfway there: Adviser risk during the ‘laborious’ asset migration process

The regulator has launched a national campaign focused on investment fraud and how to spot potential scams.

The unbundling of dealing commissions could have a more significant impact than the Retail Distribution Review on asset managers, with smaller groups and fund ranges particularly at risk, analysts have warned.

Advisers are asking more and deeper questions when probing what Zurich's platform has to offer, the insurer's head of retail platform strategy Alistair Wilson (pictured) has said.