The FCA has rejected the idea of introducing a mandatory standardised fact find.
Read more ...Advice and guidance: Shake up for firms unveiled
- Tuesday, 11 April 2017
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All financial services firms should be commanded to use a new set of explanations for advice and guidance, which should be displayed side-by-side.
Read more ...FCA axes plans for advisers to tape all client phone calls
- Friday, 31 March 2017
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The FCA has abandoned plans to force advisers to tape all client phone calls.
Read more ...Firms escape £1.2billion in fines from the FCA
- Friday, 31 March 2017
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Financial services firms have escaped a total of £1.2 billion in FCA fines in the last four years, a report has found.
Read more ...MD fined for WhatsApp confidential client data breach
- Thursday, 30 March 2017
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The FCA has fined a former investment banker for sharing confidential information over WhatsApp.
Read more ...FCA urged to crackdown as advisers brand FSCS 'unfair'
- Thursday, 30 March 2017
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A trade body has urged the FCA to tighten regulation around unregulated products to reduce compensation claims, as advisers brand the current FSCS system ‘unfair’.
Read more ...Nucleus boss: FCA asset manager probe dwarfs RDR
- Tuesday, 14 March 2017
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The FCA asset management review was ‘way bigger than RDR’, says the chief executive of Nucleus.
Read more ...FCA plans to amend the minimum levels of PII
- Monday, 06 March 2017
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The FCA plans to amend the minimum levels of professional indemnity insurance cover to bring it in line with an EU directive.
Read more ...Advice definition change to cut costs for firms, Treasury claims
- Tuesday, 28 February 2017
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Changes to the definition of financial advice will cut costs for firms, the Government claims.
Read more ...FCA annuity sales probe: Pru joins Standard Life in review
- Friday, 24 February 2017
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Prudential has today followed Standard Life in launching a review of non-advised annuity sales in the wake of an FCA inquiry.
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