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Tag archive for: financial services regulation

“‘We have an opportunity to radically rethink our disclosure regime'”
Our mantra of ‘Straightforward Advice’ and ‘Money is only as complicated as we make it’ fall at...
“Hunt seeks to unlock Brexit dividend by ditching financial rules”
Jeremy Hunt’s package of reforms to financial services regulation has been trailed as a 21st...
“Brexit fails to stop Brits flocking to the EU”
My own anecdotal evidence confirms this. Just as many clients, not many but a steady trickle, are...
“Post-Brexit regulatory shake-up: What could be the implications of a Big Bang 2.0?”
The ‘Big Bang’ of the 1980s had far-reaching consequences. Rules, many unwritten traditions...
“FCA appoints six directors”
This, I guess, is a sign that the regulation of our business is to expand still further. And that...
“FCA’s new consumer duty will be ‘dominant regulatory theme’ in 2022”
Following, no doubt, many hours of meetings and consultations, our regulator is introducing new...
“FSCS to accept claims against liquidated Czech Republic-based advice firm”
Two related stories about our compensation culture, as in financial services, it seems, ‘caveat...
“FCA’s transformation director Butler steps down”
Job titles were a feature of the brilliant ‘W1A’, a toe-curlingly close, according to insiders,...
“FCA’s cap ad plans could push small firms out, advisers say”
Good job I’m not a conspiracy theorist. I might otherwise be saying that our regulator would...
“FCA chair: Regulating 60,000 firms is a problem”
Yes, it probably is. Previous versions of the regulator thought the same. So much easier to have...
“Directors banned after taking millions from investors”
Two headlines on the same day show how financial services regulation is still as ineffective as...