FCA

Around 200,000 HSBC customers who bought investments after being advised by sales staff in high street branches could be in line for compensation after a mystery shopping exercise by investigators from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Fund groups found to have used commissions to pay for access to corporate executives will not face financial penalties, the FCA has said.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out plans to cut regulatory fees by reallocating advisers who have permissions to hold client money or safeguard and administer assets to different fee blocks.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is launching a study of the cash savings market, examining how accounts are sold and obstacles to switching among other aspects.

Some asset management and platform firms are displaying "common weaknesses" in their defences against money laundering, bribery and corruption, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has committed to cutting fund authorisation times for UCITS and other fund structures by April 2014.

REAR-VIEW

Fiona Murphy asks what the FCA's review into inducements from life offices means for the advice industry

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is writing to clients of advisers who reported a below average opt-in rate for its Arch Cru redress scheme - to ask if they believe they had been properly informed.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has expressed concerns over UCITS funds and exchange traded funds' (ETFs) ability to deliver on promises of daily liquidity for end-investors.