FCA

Our weekly heads-up on events, jobs and hires, plus some other bits and bobs for professional financial advisers...

Former director of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) Maggie Craig has been appointed as the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) interim head of savings, investments and distribution.

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Dentons Pension Management has acquired the self-invested personal pension (SIPP) book from MAB Pensions, part of the Michael Ambrose group, the Leicester based financial advice and pension administration providers for an undisclosed sum.

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The cost of investing through self-invested personal pension (SIPP) wrappers will increase after new capital adequacy rules come into force, a provider has warned.

Architas chief investment officer Caspar Rock - who has a small amount of exposure to contingent convertible securities (CoCos) though the firm's multi-asset active range - worries that the regulator's move to ban the product to retail investors may be...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined its expectations of firms and individuals when communicating with customers via social media.

Small firms have seen improvements in the way the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) communicates with them and said the regulator's approach has become "increasingly proactive, proportionate and predictable", according to a far reaching survey.