Compliance & Regulation

The Conservative government has promised it will finally produce a highly demanded and long-awaited long-term workforce plan for the NHS next year. The move has been resisted by Conservatives despite being demanded...

Employers will pay an additional £25bn in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) over the next five years, chancellor Jeremy hunt has announced. Hunt confirmed the threshold at which employers begin paying Class 1...

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has announced that the NHS England budget will be increased in each of the next two years by £3.3bn. But delivering his Autumn Statement to Parliament this afternoon, Hunt...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is writing to the bosses of life insurance firms to assess their treatment of customers in light of the cost of living crisis and the new Consumer...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has emphasised insurers must have good insight of the appointed representatives (ARs) they work with in regards to the incoming Consumer Duty. ARs have been a key...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has repeated its pledge that it will not apply the Consumer Duty to complaints retrospectively as it sought to reassure the financial servvices industry. During an Association...

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has slammed a lead generation firm for using "misleading" and "irresponsible" adverts for private medical insurance (PMI) which were likely to cause fear among the audience. In...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is scrutinising Consumer Duty implementation plans from across insurance and financial services to understand the direction firms are taking with its flagship rules. The regulator also revealed...

Demand for private medical insurance across the UAE is very strong reflecting the region’s economic rebound from Covid, according to insurers and advisers. However, regulation governing insurance providers is constantly evolving with...

The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) incoming Consumer Duty rules will prove a strong push for the protection market by forcing all firms to consider how they approach it, according to Association of...