Compliance & Regulation

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a stark warning to protection insurers about “poor selling practices” and slow restorative action and is demanding better due diligence of new advisers. The regulator...

Government has unveiled a national strategy aimed at rapidly reducing England's suicide rate. The National Suicide Prevention Strategy commits to reducing England’s suicide rate within two and a half years of launch....

The Department for Work and Pensions has launched a consultation on possible changes to the Work Capability Assessment, including updating assessment categories to better reflect the modern world of work and the...

While upcoming research indicates long waits for NHS treatment is proving the primary driver for patients to go private, as a general election looms into view, it is unlikely that government will...

The number of referrals to the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) relating to private medical and protection insurance has dropped by more than a third year-on-year. This is according to City of...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a review of 10 years of the current concurrency arrangements, which set out how the CMA and sector regulators collaborate to enforce competition law...

The Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) has responded to the His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) consultation on Abolishing the Pensions Lifetime allowance (LTA) and warned of several negative consequences that could...

Government has confirmed plans to consolidate NHS England's current 10 performance standards into three key standards. Earlier this week reports emerged that NHS England was planning to scrap two thirds of its...

The Protection Distributors Group (PDG) has introduced claim assessment times as a new measure for its claims charter. The move comes as the PDG published its list of provider claims charter signatories...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared UnitedHealth’s proposed £1.2bn purchase of EMIS following an in-depth investigation into competition concerns. EMIS is a supplier of data management systems to the...