Regulation

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a consultation into transferring clients from bundled to clean share classes, setting out what it expects from platforms and advisers.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has warned advisers over using risk-ratings for clients and subsequently investing them into risk-rated funds.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has said it, together with Essex Police, is continuing to investigate complaints into troubled overseas property company Harlequin.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said it is reassured by the progress banks have made in moving away from incentives-based sales models but it is still concerned about how investment and protection products are sold to consumers.

HSBC has been ordered to pay out $2.46bn by a US court after it lost a class action lawsuit against Household International, the lender it bought pre-crisis.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed it is investigating firms in relation to trading on the foreign exchange market.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revealed that Barclays bank was the most complained firm in the first half of the year.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed it will in future publish information about proposed enforcement actions, naming firms and individuals, before deciding whether it will take action.

Changes introduced as a result of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) are likely to lower retail advisers' share of the investment market, but they do not represent the "death knell" for the sector, according to an investment group.

Hargreaves Lansdown is in position to be a £39bn beneficiary of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), according to Barclays.