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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) wants to be seen to be acting tough on risky products following the crash of the financial services industry, leaving insurers with the acute need to regain public trust, the Association of British Insurers (ABI)...

Insurance products that are marketed and sold through advisers need to undergo radical reform to ensure providers stay competitive in a post commission world, the CEO Aegon has warned.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is going in the right direction to becoming a "genuinely different" regulator and will put greater emphasis on competition, its chief executive Martin Wheatley has said.

The government plans to scrap what it has branded the "failed" approved person regime in financial services and replace it with a new senior persons regime.

Investors in the collapsed Arch Cru fund range who sign up to a payment scheme set up by the funds' authorised corporate director, Capita Financial Managers, are in line to receive markedly less than forecast.

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has warned the regulator that consumers will be disadvantaged if the trend of shrinking adviser numbers is not reversed.

AXA Wealth and Architas have become joint lead corporate members of the Institute of Financial Planning (IFP) for the twelve month period from 1 July 2013.

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In the latest instalment in our series putting short-but-sweet questions to industry figures, Andrew Fisher, chief executive of wealth adviser Towry and, we think it's fair to say, a divisive figure, takes the stand...

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has said it fears innocent advisers would be disadvantaged and their names not cleared sufficiently under new proposals by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) about publishing warning notices....