Financial Conduct Authority

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chief executive Martin Wheatley has said he "can't commit" to lowering advisers' regulatory fees, despite a marked drop in practitioner numbers.

Regulator bans IFAs permissions

Regulatory reform costs of the former regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) more than doubled in the last year of its operation and could in future be levied on firms, the FSA annual report has revealed today.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is going in the right direction to becoming a "genuinely different" regulator and will put greater emphasis on competition, its chief executive Martin Wheatley has said.

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has said it fears innocent advisers would be disadvantaged and their names not cleared sufficiently under new proposals by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) about publishing warning notices....

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed its levy for the coming year will be £432.1m, with financial advisers contributing 9% of the total.

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 protection industry should be engaging consumers by implementing an initiative like auto-enrolment, delegates at the annual Gen Re conference heard yesterday.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on changing its rules for consumers disclosing personal information to insurers.

The Financial Conduct Authority is seen as little more than a re-branding exercise, as opposed to a change in regulatory focus, according to brokers surveyed by compliance consultancy UKGI.