The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a consultation on its approach to the regulation of international firms operating in the UK as it considers its post-Brexit approach.

The FCA, PRA and Bank of England are consulting on an updated Complaints Scheme to make it simpler and more "user friendly."

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has unveiled guidance it expects new 'superfunds' to meet to ensure savers in defined benefit (DB) schemes are protected ahead of Government legislation. 

Wealth manager trade association PIMFA has questioned whether the Financial Conduct Authority remains ‘fit for purpose’ and is capable of dealing with all the problems facing the financial sector without major reform.

The 40,000-member Personal Financial Society, which represents most of the UK’s Financial Planners, has questioned the FCA’s 5 year plan to become a ‘data-driven’ regulator.

Client referrals and pension transfers were seen as the biggest opportunity areas by financial advisers in 2019, according to a survey by fintech Intelliflo.

The Pensions Regulator has published new guidance on investment governance rules.

A pre-school nursery and its main director have been ordered to pay £8,200 for failing to comply with their pension duties and for misleading The Pensions Regulator (TPR) by falsely claiming staff had been put into a pension.

The FCA has issued a warning over a New York-based advice firm, which, it says, is operating in the UK without authorisation.

Trade association PIMFA, which represents 1,000 investment managers and financial advisers, has called on the FCA to “raise the bar” instead of banning contingent charging.