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Regulatory service provider The Consulting Consortium (TCC) has launched an analysis service aimed at helping financial adviser firms review client files for potential unsuitability.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is looking into claims traders intentionally pushed up the price of government bonds before attempting to sell them to the Bank of England (BoE) in 2011.

Financial adviser numbers are continuing to decline and this must be reflected in lower regulatory fees for those who remain, the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has said.

Barclays has named JP Morgan Chase chief financial officer Tushar Morzaria as group finance director.

Building society Nationwide has poached a senior executive at the Financial Conduct Authority to run its compliance department.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has made public details of around 1,250 final decisions as its new reporting service goes live.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a final notice against an insurance intermediary and fined it almost £7.4m, after discovering that its sales scripts were flawed.

A former mortgage adviser was sentenced to two years in prison by Maidstone Crown Court on Friday.

Wealth manager Towry inherited a "train wreck" when it acquired advisory firm Edward Jones in 2009, but it should have done more to "win the hearts and minds" of its new staff, its chief executive Andrew Fisher has said.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has seen a 179% increase in complaints about financial products and services in the first quarter of the 2013/14 financial year.