FCA

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) technical specialist Rory Percival has praised paraplanners for seeking to build a profession, but said the role should - and would - not be regulated.

Advisers are calling on regulators to introduce rules restricting the contact product providers can have with their clients.

An expat adviser a couple met when they retired to Spain has trapped their £380,000 pension pot in a collection of high risk problem-laden unregulated investments, leaving them in danger of losing everything.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is considering its regulation of the equity release market amid concerns a "dirty word" reputation has led to an under-functioning market.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is planning to update its rules for retail clients advised to buy offshore life insurance bonds, affording them greater protection.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) wants to add an undergraduate degree in financial planning to its list of approved qualifications.

The City regulators will launch a new Financial Services Register to make it easier to find information on those they regulate - including scam firms for the first time.

Adviser network Personal Touch Financial Services has written to members informing them of a planned fee increase after suffering what it called "indiscriminate" increases to its regulatory costs.

Savers have withdrawn £2.5bn from their pensions - mostly in cash lump sums - since the government's wide-ranging retirement reforms in April, latest figures show.

Financial advisers who put ordinary investors' money into collapsed £60m property scheme Arck face an even greater struggle with complaints, after the Ombudsman upheld a ruling that the investment was likely to be suitable only for sophisticated clients....