Regulation

There has been a 40% rise in reports by businesses of potential insider dealing to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), according to figures compiled by regulatory consultancy Bovil.

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) is currently undertaking a survey of consumers to see what impact the changes brought about by the Retail Distribution Review has had on them and their view of advice.

Veracity Asset Transformation Service has appointed former LEBC director Nigel Stallworthy as managing director.

Advisers have welcomed the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) first crack-down on an advisory firm which had permissions to advise but no actual qualified advisers, although they say the regulator should have acted sooner.

Hargreaves Lansdown has pushed back its widely anticipated pricing announcement until next year, having previously said it would be revealed in early December.

The Retail Distribution Review (RDR) has "intensified the competitive environment", according to wealth manager Brewin Dolphin, as it announces profit before tax for the year to September was 4% down on the previous year.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning to investors about an unauthorised firm it believes has been targeting people in the UK.

A Treasury sub-committee, led by Labour MP George Mudie, has today called for an urgent independent review into the Money Advice Service (MAS), after it found "serious problems" in how the body operated.

MPs have called for an urgent independent review into the Money Advice Service (MAS) after a damning report criticised its role and reach, and questioned the salaries it pays its top executives.

Investors view the whole of the financial services industry through the prism of banks' behaviour, meaning trade bodies must do more to talk up the good the profession does, according to ex-Morningstar OBSR managing director Richard Romer-Lee.