Regulation

The FCA's five key tests for investment advice

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has laid out for firms what it views as the differences between ‘information' and ‘investment advice' - and when information can be advice.

Taxpayers lost out on roughly £1bn in the Royal Mail initial public offering due to poorly-priced shares, MPs have said.

Investors in the failed Arch Cru fund range have so far received £11.8m in redress as a result of the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) industry-wide review into the debacle.

Is your regulator adequately protecting consumers? PA runs the numbers...

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chief executive Martin Wheatley was paid a total of £610,000 in the year to 31 March, with a basic salary of £460,000, figures published today show.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has uncovered two more cases where self-invested personal pension (SIPP) investors in troubled unregulated overseas property scheme Harlequin received poor advice.

Business executives and sport stars - among them David Beckham - have been warned they must pay HM Revenue and Customs more than £520m after a government crackdown on tax avoidance schemes.

Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) chief executive Mark Neale is "increasingly concerned" by the rising number of claims the service is receiving that are linked to advice to move pensions into risky assets held in self invested personal pensions...

Property searches by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) to target tax evasion jumped by 12% to 500 in the last year, according to official data obtained by law firm Pinsent Masons.