Fewer companies are ‘listing’, choosing to have their shares bought and sold once they’re big...
FCA
“‘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...
“Advice firms show limited appetite for four-day working week”
I would say that our profession is ideally suited to flexible working. Our business in particular,...
“Top 10 FCA Fines 2022”
Here’s a Top 10 of which no one wants to be a part. Fines handed out by the FCA totalled almost...
“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...
“FCA asks private equity about knock-on effects of market turmoil”
Private equity investors buy into small-to-medium-sized companies, giving them a big injection of...
“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...
“Emails reveal FCA’s inaction over P2P lending abuse”
The dilemma of free market vs nanny regulator is at the root of many financial scandals and scams....
“FCA increases adviser fees to £86.5m”
OK, let me quickly recycle my article from previous years. The cost of regulation’s going up, we...
“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...
“Is a four-day week feasible in the advice industry?”
Perhaps the notion that at least one ‘working day’ of most advisers’ weeks was spent on the golf...
“LV= members snub Bain takeover”
In my view, the rejection by LV= policyholders of a takeover by US venture capital is good news....