Regulation

The FSA has fined Essex-based mortgage lender Swift 1st Ltd £630,000 for unfair treatment of some customers facing mortgage arrears.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) this week published its latest complaints data for individual financial businesses. Here are some of the stand-out stats...

RBS, HSBC and Barclays ignored warnings from third party advisers before selling on billions of dollars of toxic mortgage debt to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the lead-up to the financial crisis, court papers have alleged.

Business Secretary Vince Cable has said banking reforms will go ahead despite a row over the speed of the changes.

A mortgage adviser has been banned after being convicted of 13 counts of financial crime, the FSA said today.

George Osborne and Vince Cable are set to go head to head over the Vickers' report into banking reform, as they debate the timetable for ringfencing retail banking operations.

The Building Societies Association (BSA) believes regulatory intervention has provided a major barrier to insurance purchases and that the FSA's approach is "pretty flawed".

A mortgage broker convicted of making almost £1m from a £2.24m fraud has been ordered to pay back £240,000.

A mortgage broker who tried to sue the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for £1.67m has had his libel case thrown out by the High Court.

A former mortgage broker is taking on the FSA without any legal representation as part of a £1.67m libel claim.