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UK Insurance Ltd, the parent company of Churchill and Direct Line, has been fined £2.17m by the FSA for doctoring its customer complaint files.

FundsNetwork has urged the regulator to change tack and include platform re-registration under adviser charging principles as part of a wide-ranging critique of the regulator's legacy asset paper.

Insurer Aegon has warned of the "disastrous" ramifications of removing trail commission following a fund switch - a move the FSA hinted at in its latest consultation paper on legacy commission.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published guidelines to push lenders to simplify wording on mortgage contracts that permit switching consumers from interest-only to repayment mortgages.

The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) today highlights the FSA's swift dismissal last year of a proposal to delay the introduction of RDR as evidence of accountability and culture failings at the regulator, and said the same problems must not "plague" its...

The Treasury Select Committee (TSC) has told trade bodies to be more vocal with their concerns about regulators and urged the industry to be the drivers of better regulation.

Victims of the Bayshore Nominees boiler room scam are to receive just 7p back for every £1 invested, according to the Financial Services Authority.

Pave Financial Management is to have its permissions cancelled by the FSA following the mis-selling of unregulated collective investment schemes (UCIS), with two of its directors also being punished.

Police have arrested five men as part of its investigations into a small number of suspicious trades reported by Bristol-based stockbroker and wealth manager Rowan Dartington.

With the average age of EIS investors falling, are more people finally waking up to the products' tax benefits?