Regulation

Proposals for a financial transaction tax are ‘significantly detrimental to the UK's interest', according to a Lords committee.

AFH Financial Group has acquired Michael Mac Wealth Management in its nineteenth deal since 2011.

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has called for clear guidance from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on what it considers to be consumer credit activity and for which activities advisers need to have a licence.

Fines levied by the regulator against the financial services industry soared by almost 50% this year, as the tougher stance of the new Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) left its mark.

Defaqto has warned that advisers relying on the 120% capped drawdown limit could be jeopardising their clients' safe retirement.

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The survival of commission and lax regulation are fuelling a "significant shift" to non-advice in the mass market for annuities, at the expense of professional advice, transparency and healthy consumer outcomes, according to the Financial Services Consumer...

Axa Wealth's multi-manager arm Architas has appointed former UBS GAM sales director James Bampton as head of intermediary sales.

MPs have refused to grant the regulator the power to ban individuals before its investigations into them are completed, due in part to the "serious harm" it could cause small firms.