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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and HM Treasury (HMT) will be consulting this month on tighter rules for the appointed representative (AR) regime. The regulator also revealed that it plans to publish...

Manulife Hong Kong has appointed Candy Au Yeung as chief operations officer. Yeung (pictured) joins from Prudential Hong Kong where she most recently led on customer service, claims, medical network and policy...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) saw it’s workplace benefits spend including healthcare and protection cover soar by almost £1m in the last year. In its annual report the regulator said its benefits...

Unum UK has appointed the former chairman of GoCompare Stuart Vann (pictured) as an independent non-executive director. Vann, who will also take on the role of audit committee chairman, is a qualified...

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) spent more than £1,000 per case in the last financial year and revealed its backlog in cases grew to more than 90,000 as the Covid pandemic hit...

The future of adviser commission in the protection market maybe under the regulator’s microscope as it continues its long-term vision, according to incoming Aviva managing director of protection Fran Bruce. In an...

Four in 10 Britons say they have no financial security if they were to find themselves unable to work due to illness, according to research by Cigna Europe. The survey also showed...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated two Staffordshire mental health hospitals as inadequate for the second time in six months. The CQC inspected John Munroe Hospital, a 57-bed hospital for men...

More than a third of people did not follow up breast cancer worries due to the pandemic, according to research from Aviva. Its survey of 1,000 UK consumers found that, when asked...

Updated: The accused and four co-defendants have since been acquitted of the allegations in 2023.   An Indian man has been arrested after trying to stage his own death using a cobra...