FCA

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to review the suitability of retirement advice following the pension ‘freedoms' set to be introduced next month.

The regulator has encouraged people to seek independent financial advice if approached about investing their pension, as it warned of a rise in investment scamming ahead of the pensions freedom coming into force in April.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is set to be heavily criticised over its decision to leak details of an upcoming insurance probe to a national newspaper, inadvertently causing shares in several major life companies to plummet, according to reports....

Two ex-directors of failed adviser TailorMade Independent (TMI) - the main distributor of £400m troubled unregulated property scheme Harlequin - have been banned and fined by the regulator for not assessing the suitability of clients' investments made...

A former trader has become the third person to be sentenced in what marked the end of the first phase of the regulator's "largest and most complex insider dealing investigation" to date.

Consumers are at risk of buying retirement products they later regret because of confusing regulatory rules around commission, pensions expert Ros Altmann has said.

A law firm has called into question the effectiveness of the regulator's investigations tool, which, paid for by the firms probed, led to enforcement action in only 2% of cases last year.

Retweet at your peril: Eight FCA social media dos and don'ts

The number of platforms targeting advisory firms is likely to halve after 2017, according to Standard Life's David Tiller.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has dropped its suggestion firms should be using #ad in financial promotions on Twitter, following industry concerns about its appropriateness.