Regulation

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has declared one former network and nine other advice firms in default.

Pension scheme members are three times more likely to be approached about accessing their pots since the Budget freedoms were announced, according to research.

Complaints about pensions dealt with by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) have fallen markedly year on year, figures show, with the impending changes to legislation cited as a possible explanation for the drop.

HMRC's crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion by people who it calls "mass affluent" saw an income boost of 60% in the last year, a new report has claimed.

Ex-Treasury minister Mark Hoban is to quit parliament from May.

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Advice to invest in a troubled unregulated overseas property scheme has helped push 24 firms over into failure, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has said.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said it will look to take even earlier pre-emptive action against what it believes is bad practice in a bid to counter accusations from the industry that it unfairly employs retrospective regulation.