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UK regulator targets conflicts in investment consulting

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
Asset consultants could be in the firing line as the UK's financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), sets competition and conflicts of interest within the asset management industry in its sights. The heads of the UK's largest pension ...

NAB fined $40m over British bank failings

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... Kingdom's Financial Ombudsman Service as well as adopting inappropriate complaint policies. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued the landmark fine and acting director of enforcement and market oversight, Georgina Philippou, said Clydesdale ...

UK pension funds required to warn consumers

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to chief executive officers of pension providers to outline government plans to introduce additional protection for retirees wishing to access their defined contribution pension pot from April this ...

UK FCA to review social media guidelines

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is conducting a review of how wealth groups use social media to promote their products following concerns that more regulatory clarity may be needed. The review which was launched last month and closes in November ...

British govt to introduce pension choice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... pension providers and schemes to deliver this 'guidance guarantee' by April 2015." "We have asked the Financial Conduct Authority to make sure this guidance meets robust standards, working closely with consumer groups. And we will make available a A£20 ...

AXA fined for poor advice in the UK

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has imposed AXA a financial penalty for giving poor investment advice to NAB-owned banks in the UK. AXA will have to pay a fine of more than A$3 million to customers of NAB-owned Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire ...

NAB embroiled in £1.3 billion UK bank scandal

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
... to pay back customers after they mis-sold protection for identity theft and credit card fraud. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) yesterday announced that insurer Card Protection Plan Limited (CPP) and 13 banks, including Clydesdale, would have pay ...

New UK fin services watchdog polls public

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
Following the SEC's direct appeal to the public for information, the incoming Financial Conduct Authority in the UK is asking the public for input about what information they'd like the regulator and the financial services industry to disclose. The ...