Compliance & Regulation

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has expects its management expenses budget to increase 5% to hit £99.8m for 2023-24, despite expecting to handle fewer claims next year. The increase is coming...

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has admitted to using private healthcare but refused to be answer how long he had to wait for his last dentist appointment. Sunak's admissions came as pressure increased...

The former chairman of the Personal Finance Society's (PFS) financial planning practitioner panel believes in an ideal world the body would become independent of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) as it can...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is extending measures introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic to now support all insurance customers in financial difficulty whatever the reason. In its CP23/1 consultation the regulator explained...

Alasdair Walker has stepped down as panel member and chairman of the financial planning panel at the Personal Finance Society (PFS) citing the ongoing dispute between the PFS and the Chartered Insurance...

Stonebridge chief executive Rob Clifford has been appointed on to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Smaller Business Practitioner Panel. Clifford (pictured) has led mortgage and protection network Stonebridge Mortgage Solutions since 2019,...

Firms' use of data will be critical to providing evidence that they are compliant with the price and value outcome of the regulator's new Consumer Duty, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has...

The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) has hit back in its ongoing dispute with the Personal Finance Society (PFS), claiming suggestions its takeover has been carried out other than for governance failures were...

Personal Finance Society (PFS) president Caroline Stuart has stepped down with immediate effect. In an explosive statement released this afternoon Stuart laid bare the reasons for her abrupt departure laying the blame...

Personal Finance Society (PFS) president Caroline Stuart has resigned with immediate effect accusing the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) of using "baseless" allegations of governance failures and "bullying and intimidation" to justify accessing...