The FCA halted 343 applications for authorisation from firms and individuals in 2020 in a clampdown to protect consumers.

The FCA has issued a warning today about crypto asset-linked investment providers advertising or promising high returns.

The former interim chief executive of the FCA Christopher Woolard has been awarded a CBE in the New Year Honours list.

The Financial Conduct Authority has appointed Quilter chief executive Paul Feeney as chair of its independent Practitioner Panel.

The retail financial services sector has welcomed the UK-EU trade deal announced on Christmas Eve but warned that many question remain on the future of the financial services sector post-Brexit.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has banned corporate trustee Audax Pension Trust and one of its directors, Edward Martin Kelly, from acting as pension scheme trustees after multiple governance failures.

The FCA has urged financial services firms to be ready for the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December as it prepares to make 300 updates to its website.

The FCA’s Financial Services Register will be offline for five days from 31 December to 4 January while the regulator makes Brexit-related changes.

The Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT) has backed House of Lords recommendations that unregulated tax advisers be brought into regulation.

Crowd-funder MoneyThing Capital Limited has gone into administration.