Regulation

A former Positive Solutions adviser has been ordered to repay £55,000 to the clients she stole from.

A group of investors in troubled overseas property scheme Harlequin have dropped a case against the scheme's chairman David Ames, and his company director wife Carol, that alleged the pair made false claims about the investment.

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.