Regulation

Senior FSA executive Andrew Bailey has accused Barclays of operating with a "culture of gaming" which came from top of the bank.

The Financial Services Authority )FSA) has banned Quintillion Asset Management from conducting regulated business, after failing to pay fees and levies of over £8,000.

Inadequate controls at HSBC allowed it to be used to launder suspicious money from around the world, including Mexican drug money, a damning US report has found.

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) is urging the Chancellor to reconsider plans to direct regulatory fines to government coffers.

Two Labour peers have introduced an amendment to the Financial Services Bill seeking to minimise Financial services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) costs borne by levy-payers.

Just 15% of financial advisers are ready for the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), according to research released today.

Financial advice could boost retirement income by as much as £232 a month, according to a report released today.

Advisers expect to write less tax-wrapped business in 2013, according to research.

Aegon has released details of its post-RDR commission pipeline for products on which the advice process is fully completed by 30 December.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has frozen the assets of three companies suspected of running a land banking operation.