Financial Conduct Authority

The average length of time taken by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to authorise financial services start-ups is now back up to its highest levels, according to data obtained by City law firm RPC.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is likely to apply more scrutiny to companies' boards prior to implementing its new senior person's regime, a consultancy has suggested.

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has asked for the regulator's budget to be frozen for three years, so it can provide a cut in real terms.

Financial Conduct Authority looks at social media to communicate with financial services firms

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned and fined former insurance broker Paul Cable £140,000 for misleading a client into thinking they had taken out an insurance policy when they hadn't.

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chief executive Martin Wheatley has said he "can't commit" to lowering advisers' regulatory fees, despite a marked drop in practitioner numbers.

Regulator bans IFAs permissions

Regulatory reform costs of the former regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) more than doubled in the last year of its operation and could in future be levied on firms, the FSA annual report has revealed today.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is going in the right direction to becoming a "genuinely different" regulator and will put greater emphasis on competition, its chief executive Martin Wheatley has said.

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has said it fears innocent advisers would be disadvantaged and their names not cleared sufficiently under new proposals by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) about publishing warning notices....