Regulation

A major review into consumer access to the financial advice market has been launched by HM Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is set to explore how robo-advice could work within the current financial services landscape, as it expands a project encouraging innovation in the sector.

Controversy over a widening gulf between those who need financial advice and those who can actually afford to pay for it has been branded "not advisers' problem" by industry veteran Geoff Mills.

Five times the FCA made no sense

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed a new director of supervision to replace Tracey McDermott who will step up to acting CEO in September.

Financial services lobby group TISA has vowed to bring clarity to what the incoming European legislation Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) will mean for advisers and providers.

An adviser has started a petition to Parliament calling for a vote of no confidence in the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) and for it to be brought under the remit of common law.

A small IFA firm has used its love of social media to create an automated financial advice service for those priced out and cut-off from traditional advice.

Communicate smarter not harder

Network True Potential advisers have spoken of how they lost thousands of pounds to a former IFA banned for mortgage fraud, who promised them leads to high-net-worth clients that were never delivered.