Consumer complaints reported by financial services firms fell by 500,000 between the second half of 2012 and the first half of 2013, according to the Financial...
A charter aimed at tightening up regulation for payday lenders has been launched by a Labour MP. Paul Blomfield, MP for Sheffield, has launched the Charter...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined how it plans to regulate consumer credit – including the payday loans industry – when it takes on the...
UK regulators are not backing down against bad behaviour in the financial sector, according to research carried out by audit firm EY. The study looked at...
US investment bank JP Morgan Chase has been fined $920m (£573m) for concealing so-called ‘London Whale’ trades that led to losses of $6.2 billion. Regulators in...
Barclays bank has revealed it is facing a £50m fine from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over a deal with Qatari investors in 2008. The FCA...
Wealth management firm AXA Wealth has been fined £1.8 million after a review by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) found that it failed to give suitable...
Crowdfunding, an increasingly popular form of financing for individual projects and small businesses, is set to be tackled by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), in an...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued preliminary findings from an investigation into mobile banking services, and has warned that users may face fraud and security issues....
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled a compensation scheme for customers who were mis-sold protection for credit card fraud and identity theft. International life assistance...
Accountancy firm KPMG has released a report, in which it claims that too much regulation on the big banks will curb growth. The study shows that...
Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said the big banks have to change their culture in order to play a more socially and economically useful...
The Treasury has announced plans to ramp up consumer protection to the next level within the financial sector. The new system, unveiled on Wednesday, is due...
Research by consumer group Which? suggests that the payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling scandal has cost the banks twice as much as it cost to stage the London Olympics...
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been fined £5.6m by the banking regulator, after incorrectly reporting more than 44m transactions made with other banks and...