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Financial advisers fined £1m for advice which cost customers £50m

Five men will have to pay more than £1 million between them for “reprehensively” betraying the interests of customers who went to them for financial advice, the City watchdog has said. A tribunal upheld the decision of the Financial Conduct ...

09 May 2022 at 14:25

Personal Finance

Fee cap for claims management firms comes into force

People using claims management firms will be protected from excessive amounts of their compensation being swallowed up by fees, under new rules. The changes brought into force on Tuesday by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will cap ...

01 Mar 2022 at 12:55

City

Many pension savers do not know whether they have protection if a firm goes bust

Two-fifths of pension savers have never checked whether their money is protected by a body which compensates people when firms go bust. Some 40% of those saving into a pension have not checked whether their pension is protected by the ...

26 Jan 2022 at 01:26

Personal Finance

British Steel pensioners had a ‘gun to the head’ says former watchdog Bailey

The former boss of the City watchdog has said that British Steel pensioners had a gun to their head as they made one of the most complex financial decisions of their lives. Andrew Bailey, who now leads the Bank of England, told MPs ...

14 Jun 2022 at 10:05

Personal Finance

New rules to prevent claims managers gaining if linked to past poor conduct

New rules preventing claims management companies (CMCs) from being paid to help in cases where they are connected to a customer losing out in the first place will come into force next month. The changes, introduced from July 7, ...

07 Jun 2022 at 14:31

Personal Finance

Financial Services Compensation Scheme slashes levy it expects firms will pay

A lifeboat scheme which compensates customers when financial firms go bust has slashed the total levy amount that it expects will be paid by the industry. The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is able to pay ...

25 May 2023 at 13:06

Ads for five gold dealers banned for failing to make lack of regulation clear

The advertising watchdog has banned ads for five gold dealers for failing to make clear that the investments are unregulated and their value could vary. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) investigated the ads ...

20 Nov 2024 at 00:01

Infected blood probe chairman intervenes over compensation scheme

There has been a “groundswell of discontent” over the way the compensation scheme for the infected blood scandal is being managed, the judge that led the probe into the issue has said. Sir Brian Langstaff has taken ...

10 Dec 2024 at 15:57

Personal Finance

Financial lifeboat scheme expects to pay £363m in compensation in 2024-25

A financial lifeboat scheme has said it expects to pay £363 million in compensation during 2024-25. The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), which is funded by the financial services industry, said the ...

23 May 2024 at 10:25

Sibling eligibility for infected blood pay outs extended as first payments made

The first few victims of the infected blood scandal have received their final compensation pay outs, the Government has said as it extended eligibility criteria for siblings to get compensation. Cabinet Office ...

17 Dec 2024 at 13:44

Windrush Commissioner urges reform of ‘opaque and unjust’ compensation scheme

The Windrush compensation scheme still feels “opaque and unjust” to many victims and must be urgently reformed, the commissioner has told the Government. In his first formal recommendations to the immigration ...

05 Sept 2025 at 10:22

Personal Finance

Pension savers may be vulnerable to scammers as living costs bite, FCA warns

Cost-of-living concerns could drive some pension savers into scammers’ clutches, research from the City regulator suggests. A quarter (25%) of people said they would consider withdrawing their pension ...

06 Oct 2022 at 01:01

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