FSA

Too much regulation - instead of instilling greater trust in the financial services industry - can have the opposite effect, according to Richard Sexton, reputation and policy director at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

The blame for the erosion of trust in financial services must be laid at the feet of everyone involved in the sector, the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA's) director of supervision has said.

It will come as little surprise to readers of IFAonline.co.uk that most of your peers believe Hector Sants, the former chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and now the highly-paid head of compliance at Barclays Bank, was misguided...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has reached an agreement with Santander UK that will see the bank contact over 270,000 mortgage customers about unclear information it gave before increasing the cap on its standard variable rate (SVR) in 2008.

People who engage in risky activities in the financial services sector should be forced to take on unlimited personal liability as a deterrent to bad practice, according to the boss of Hermes.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned Kevin Wells, the managing director of Montpelier Pension Administration Services, from performing any significant influence function at any regulated firm, and also censured him.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out the steps it will put into action in the event of a regulatory failure.

Merchant House Group (MHG) has entered administration for reportedly failing to honour guarantee that it would pay liabilities relating to its structured product arm, Merchant Capital.

Martin Wheatley, chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has branded the previous watchdog - the Financial Services Authority (FSA) - "too robotic" in its approach to regulation.

Mark Norris, the former chief operating officer (COO) at the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has been appointed as COO of the University of Greenwich.