Compliance & Regulation

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has launched a new investigation into potential consumer law breaches in will writing.  The CMA will also investigate online divorce services, and pre-paid probate plans. It...

Phoenix Hospital Group is the latest private healthcare provider to be hit with enforcement action by regulators over its failure to provide key performance and patient outcome data. The hospital group has...

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is further cracking down on doctors, hospitals and other private healthcare providers which are not supplying key data on their performance and patient outcomes. In its...

Advisers believe they will be making more protection insurance recommendations as a result of the Consumer Duty, according to research from Guardian. The insurer also found advisers did not feel introducing the...

Principal firms have tightened up control of their appointed representatives (AR) as a result of the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) focus on the area. The regulator’s practitioner panel research found the majority...

Chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt has conceded that maintaining a healthy workforce is "crucial" to ensuring and maximising productivity growth and acknowledged the soarding numbers of people out of work due...

One in five firms believe the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has not been effective in engaging with firms as they plan for and embed the new flagship Consumer Duty. More than one...

A national health at work standard should be established for all employers providing a baseline for quality occupational health provision in their organisations. The proposal forms a central plank of a government...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) improved its service levels performance last year but is still lagging behind targets for dealing with firm authorisations and approved persons. The regulator said it achieved or...

The government is asking whether there is a case for tax relief to be introduced for private medical insurance (PMI) provided though the workplace, despite not seeing the case for the tax...