Compliance & Regulation

The National Audit Office (NAO) will investigate the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) over its effectiveness and readiness to meet future challenges - particularly cryptoassets and artificial intelligence (AI). Chief executive Nikhil Rathi...

Love Island influencers have their place in promoting the protection industry but only if they are "authentic" and can ask open-ended questions aimed at educating the wider population. This was according to...

British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) executive director Graeme Trudgill has succeeded Steve White as the organisation's next chief executive. Trudgill takes up the role with immediate effect following a process conducted by...

SIP Medical Family Office has obtained direct authorisation under the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) following Brexit.  The move means that the company can now operate as an independent insurance intermediary in the UK,...

Mortgage, protection and compliance services distributor Paradigm has added a Consumer Duty test to their CPD Academy Test Zone and launched their latest video in its Consumer Duty On Film series covering...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has appointed Zurich UK CEO, Tim Bailey, as president and M&G's chief executive for retail and savings, Claire Bousfield, as deputy president. Assuming their roles immediately,...

As artificial intelligence becomes one of the most talked about new technologies since the advent of the mobile phone, not everyone is convinced that it will prove to be a good thing...

With the Consumer Duty about to come into effect in a month’s time, intimidating question sets simply will not pass the muster, according to James Daley, managing director at Fairer Finance. “Number...

While firms' Consumer Duty processes do not have to be "perfect" from day one, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) does expect them to have the capability to monitor outcomes from the day...

If a new Labour government comes into power after the next election, insurance companies must not seek to replace the NHS, but rather only compliment it, according to Andy Harrop, general secretary...