Compliance

The Right Mortgage and Protection Network has hired Gavin Earnshaw to be its new compliance director.

The Consulting Consortium (TCC) has launched a 'bespoke' compliance support service for small financial advice firms.

Complaints data published by the FCA has showed 2,479,029 new complaints opened against financial services firms between July and December 2013.

A compliance service designed for financial planning firms has been launched.

The emergence of a profits-before-ethics culture in financial services skewed employees' view of the industry's purpose and prevented them from challenging immoral behaviour, the Financial Conduct Authority's enforcement boss has said.

The Financial Skills Partnership (FSP) is to launch a plan to train 150 unemployed graduates as financial advisers.

A Bradford-based financial adviser has been jailed after a court found him guilty of stealing almost £400,000 from four vulnerable clients over a 16-year period.

The number of apprenticeships in the financial services sector has rocketed by 233% in the past year, according to figures from the National Apprenticeship Service.

A former tied adviser who defrauded a friend out of £22,000, pocketing £10,000 for himself, has escaped jail but must repay the money.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has called on firms and individuals to tell them about bad behaviour within the marketplace to strengthen the regulator.