Regulation

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has created a dedicated fund supervision unit to regulate and monitor individual retail funds for the first time, in a bid to better safeguard investors and consumers.

EEA Group, the company behind the EEA Life Settlements fund, is urging investors who believe they were mis-sold the product to complain to the intermediaries who arranged the sale, following an alert by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

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Barclays, Fidelity and HSBC have been flagged by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as the most complained about firms for investments in the first half of 2014.

Charles Stanley chief executive Sir David Howard is to step down following new European Union (EU) rules demanding firms separate the roles of CEO and chairman.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is inviting investors in the EEA Life Settlements fund who bought directly or via a financial adviser to consider making a complaint as it believes some are "likely to have been mis-sold the product".

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Barclays a record £38m for failing to adequately protect clients' custody assets worth £16.5bn.

A Corporate Chartered financial planning business has been told to compensate a client who was recommended to invest £50,000 in a bond based on senior US life settlement policies, following a final ruling by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).

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