Regulation

Restricted national advisory group Sandringham Financial Partners has selected Axa Wealth's Elevate platform and its multi-manager proposition Architas for its panel.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is not seeking to pile more pressure on adviser firms already under financial strain by investigating payments they may receive from providers, its director responsible for supervising advisers said.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined a number of good and bad practices in its consultation paper on inducements after it found "serious failings" among advisory firms in complying with the regulator's conflict of interest rule.

A campaign to introduce a long-stop for advisers is gaining momentum. Fiona Murphy looks at the issues driving this

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found breaches to Principle 8 regarding conflicts of interest in half of the firms it reviewed as part of a report into inducements between advisers and providers.

Figures from the Financial Ombudsman reveal how Britain's banking giants are wrongly throwing out 70 % of complaints about so-called packaged accounts - which cost customers up to £300 a year.

Consumer attitudes towards financial services businesses have changed irreversibly, the chief executive of the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has said.

Barclays bank is facing new fines in the region of tens of millions of pounds in association with a multi-billion pound private investment five years ago, according to reports.

Axa Wealth Services (Axa) was today fined £1.8m for giving poor investment advice to elderly and inexperienced customers, even though only 82 people complained. So what went wrong?

An adviser has hit out about the lack of understanding surrounding the value of advice post-Retail Distribution Review (RDR), claiming that the regulator should have done more to inform people.