Regulation

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has launched an investigation into the conduct of former Bradford & Bingley group finance director Chris Willford.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has hit investment advisers with a £105m levy for 2014/15, an increase of 34% on the last levy.

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) is preparing to challenge the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) this week over what it considers inconsistent case verdicts on advisers.

Economist and founder of Capital Economics Roger Bootle has said that quantitative easing (QE) is not the "inflation danger" people should be worried about - the focus should be on the intentions of the government.

Investment advisers may contribute almost £15m towards the day-to-day running of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) in 2014-2015.

Nick Train, a long-term backer of Hargreaves Lansdown, has said the platform's assets could hit £240bn by 2020 - a figure which would mean adding £200bn in AUA over the next six years.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed consultancy Promontory Financial Group and accountancy firm Mazars to lead its skilled persons (s166) review into the failures around the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) lending practices to small firms....

Banks will re-enter the advice space once the regulator has given a clear steer on simplified advice, Standard Life head of business solutions Innes Miller has suggested.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined a number of good and bad practices around inducements in its final guidance.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today laid out its final rules around adviser-provider inducements. Here IFAonline breaks down the paper into what the regulator deems acceptable - and what it definitely does not.