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“FCA fines PwC £15mn for failing to disclose suspected fraud at LCF”
The collapse of London Capital reflects badly on the whole of financial services and particularly...
“FCA to launch protection commissions probe over competition concerns”
How could a review into the evils of commission paid to those who sell life insurance be a bad...
“Firms with over 50 advisers report pre-tax loss in 2023”
For those of us who have been in the business for a while (OK, quite a while), this comes as no...
“FCA announces plan to reduce regulatory burden on financial services firms”
Our regulator’s latest initiative is to reduce the amount of regulation. It’s become apparent that...
“Advisers fearful of further compliance and regulation”
We know, of course we know, that regulation is, or at least should be a ‘good thing’. If those who...
“New mums have enough on their plate without dangerous ‘advice’ to contend with”
The ‘dangerous advice’ in question here is not what you might hear from almost any properly...
“FCA plan to publicise investigations sparks industry concerns”
Of course everyone wants to make sure that any financial services companies likely to cause...
“Britain has lost 435 financial advice firms since 2022”
Headline figures, there were over 200,000 financial advisers at the end of the ’90s, there are...
“Simon Evan-Cook: FCA must wake up to consolidation damage”
This is where I can don my ‘been around the block, seen it all before’ mantle. What’s happening in...
“‘No need for paper’ as AI emerges”
That’s all very well, and we’re happy to have been officially paper-free for many years now; as in...
“Are financial advisers under threat from AI?”
We’ve been going AI crazy in recent months. Will it be the end of the world as we know it? Will...
“‘Is simplified advice a realistic venture?'”
If we give you actual financial advice which results in you doing something which we arrange for...
“‘AI can make advice more personal'”
Counter-intuitive? Most of our day-to-day, online experience of AI is of those ‘chatbots’, which...
“Retail investors turning to media rather than advisers for answers”
The nub of this is that, apparently, most ‘retail investors’ (that’s you if you’re not a pro or a...