Compliance & Regulation

The importance of getting to grips with the Consumer Duty may finally be hitting home ahead of the deadline for brokers to submit compliance strategies to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), according...

Increased responsibilities created by the Consumer Duty mean some advisers face a choice between setting up their own specialist protection divisions or signposting business out entirely, according to Paradigm Protect. Paradigm Protect...

Jeremey Hunt, the latest chancellor of the exchequer, has announced plans to row back almost all of the tax measures announced by his predecessor Kwasi Kwarteng in his mini Budget. In an...

Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt (pictured left) has succeeded Kwasi Kwarteng (pictured right) as chancellor of the exchequer. Hunt is the Conservative government's fourth chancellor this year - he follows Rishi Sunak,...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has begun focus groups with members of the financial services industry examining ‘practical difficulties’ in the boundary between advice and guidance. The regulator also confirmed that its...

The role of the adviser has never been more important in explaining the true value of protection as panic has enveloped mortgage customers due to fears around skyrocketing interest rates. And advisers...

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has called on government to develop a replacement for its Fit for Work Service as hundreds of thousands of adults become economically inactive and...

The director of an Ayrshire health and wellbeing company has been banned from acting as a director for 10 years after fraudulently claiming a £30,000 government Bounce Back Loan (BBL). Monica Coyle...

The founder of Peachy has told Health & Protection that the start-up health insurer expects to roll out its group product by early April 2023 at the latest and revealed why the...

Processing health data could become a lot more difficult if the UK diverges from current European general data protection regulation (GDPR), an employment lawyer has warned. And if the UK's proposed new...