Regulation

Restricted network Personal Touch Financial Services has incurred an additional £154,000 in costs relating to claims brought against the firm in 2013, its accounts show.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has promoted its former head of savings, investments and distribution policy, David Geale, to director of policy.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have proposed new rules that would seek to change how bankers behave and are paid.

We can forget simplified advice without simplified regulation, writes Derek Bradley

The first significant lawsuit from the Keydata scandal has been issued against US-based brokerage CRT Capital, according to the Financial Times.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) said it expects the number of advisory businesses declared in default as a result of its investigations into self-invested personal pension (SIPP) advice to rise above the current four.

Discretionary fund managers (DFMs) are facing growing pressures to standardise managed portfolio fees as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) considers warning advisers against using any service where costs are not clear.

With the FCA's multiple spotlights converging on investment suitability, advisers are being invited to have their questions answered...

Lloyds Banking Group has been fined a total of £218m by UK and US authorities for a series of failings, including manipulating fees it owed to the Bank of England (BoE) for a taxpayer-backed scheme designed to support the UK's banks during the financial...

AFH has bought out Edinburgh-based Finlay Gow & Company for £657,000 to enter the Scottish advice market.