FCA
Economics
Another group of shareholders in Tesco is preparing legal action against the food retailer following its accounting blunder late last year.
24 March 2015
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1 min read
Financial services
The Financial Conduct Authority is to launch a market study on the asset management industry and the charges it levies upon investors, with adviser inducements and non-advised sales also set to come under scrutiny in the coming months.
24 March 2015
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4 min read
Wealth managers
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is set to be heavily criticised over its decision to leak details of an upcoming insurance probe to a national newspaper, inadvertently causing shares in several major life companies to plummet, according to reports....
23 March 2015
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1 min read
Wealth managers
Two ex-directors of failed adviser TailorMade Independent (TMI) - the main distributor of £400m troubled unregulated property scheme Harlequin - have been banned and fined by the regulator for not assessing the suitability of clients' investments made...
20 March 2015
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3 min read
Wealth managers
A former trader has become the third person to be sentenced in what marked the end of the first phase of the regulator's "largest and most complex insider dealing investigation" to date.
20 March 2015
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2 min read
Wealth managers
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned former Rabobank trader Paul Robson from the UK financial services industry for LIBOR manipulation.
17 March 2015
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1 min read
Wealth managers
A law firm has called into question the effectiveness of the regulator's investigations tool, which, paid for by the firms probed, led to enforcement action in only 2% of cases last year.
16 March 2015
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2 min read
Advisory
Changes to regulatory authorisation procedures is to affect the acquisition-led strategy of wealth firm consolidator AFH Financial, the company has said.
16 March 2015
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1 min read
Wealth managers
Retweet at your peril: Eight FCA social media dos and don'ts
13 March 2015
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5 min read
