Regulation

The Queen has spoken about "lax" City workers and a banking regulator which "didn't have the teeth" to intervene as she discussed the causes of the financial crisis during a visit to the Bank of England

F&TRC Protection Forum has launched a second G-day matrix for protection applications which fail to meet the gender neutral deadline.

Private medical care providers may be forced to respond to Freedom of Information requests.

Advice firms must send the Financial Services Authority (FSA) data on all of their advisers' professional standards by the 29 January 2013.

Rural community wellbeing has become a focus for Welsh universities and local NHS health board.

The government will ask the Office of Tax Simplification to conduct a review of ways to simplify the taxation of employee benefits.

The FSA has confirmed that advisers who are not level 4-qualified can still advise on Holloway insurance products.

AT A GLANCE

AUTUMN STATEMENT

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has called into question the amount of money spent each year by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) on recoveries.