Regulation

The FSA has fiend a health and social care services organisation £175,000 for failing to ensure compliance with share dealing provisions.

Consumers are less likely to surrender on some life and pensions products if they were sold to them by an IFA, data collected by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) suggests.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and the Financial Services Authority (FSA) will be meeting with insurers and protection industry individuals to provide clarity on recent short-term income protection product (STIP) final guidance.

European leaders are set to announce a long-term deal that would see the EU budget cut, in real terms, for the first time since the European Union was created.

The debate around increased transparency on insurance broker commission disclosure, proposed in the Insurance Mediation Directive II draft, is just a storm in a teacup, industry experts have said.

Panacea Adviser, a free online community for adviser firms, is calling for immediate action to overhaul the way in which the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is funded following yesterday's announcement of a £76m levy on investment intermediaries....

The Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries (AMII) will be tackling the incoming Financial Conduct Authority's impact on the insurance industry at its next annual general meeting in March.

RBS has been fined a collective £391m for its role in the LIBOR scandal, with the FSA's investigation finding more than 200 "inappropriate" rate submissions.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said it will "come down hard" on those firms who continue to flout its rules after its first round of thematic reviews this year.

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is currently upholding about 47% of all complaints, according to the FOS' own figures.