Regulation

Amendments should be made to the Financial Services Bill to ensure the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) properly promotes UK financial services in the global market, a think tank has said.

The managing director of James Hay has apologised to ex-Honister advisers for a ‘heavy handed' letter sent direct to their clients indicating they could appoint a new adviser while theirs awaited re-authorisation.

The Association of British Insurers has said it is "extremely confident" age and disability pricing factors will not go the same way as gender with the incoming EU Equal Treatment Directive.

Victims of a £1m boiler room scam are to be paid back a fraction of their losses after the Financial Services Authority (FSA) secured a court order against the fraudsters behind it.

The government has been criticised for its insistence that the Money Advice Service (MAS) should be responsible for educating consumers about risk.

Regulators have turned their attention to at least four of Europe's largest banks in a continued investigation of manipulation of the LIBOR benchmark interest rate.

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