Former NASA physicist John Burford has pleaded guilty in a £1m investment fraud case, following a prosecution brought by the FCA.

The FCA’s decision to ban Jes Staley, former chief executive of Barclays, from holding senior management roles in the financial services industry has been upheld by the Upper Tribunal.

FCA CEO Nikhil Rathi has told a City audience today that an announcement on a new generation of targeted support and simplified advice was "imminent."

Two thirds (65%) of complaints made by whistleblowers to the FCA last financial year included allegations related to compliance.

The FCA has handed £150 compensation to an unnamed adviser who said his firm was wrongly listed on the Financial Services Register as an appointed representative for an unnamed firm he had already left and never worked with.

A former analyst at asset manager Janus Henderson and his sister have been convicted of insider dealing and money laundering which netted them more than £1m.

The Financial Conduct Authority is to focus on "proportionate regulation" under its new 5-year strategy, its chief operating officer told ABI conference delegates this week.

Half of advice firms are reviewing their client bases for potential segmentation ahead of the FCA’s Advice Guidance Boundary Review outcome, according to a new report.

Craig Donaldson and David Arden, former CEO and CFO of Metro Bank, have been fined £167,325 and £100,950 respectively for being knowingly concerned in a breach of the listing rules.

A culture of risk aversion among financial regulators undermines financial firms’ competitiveness and growth, the Financial Services Regulation Committee said.

Cambrian Associates Ltd (FRN 158976), an adviser firm based in North Wales, has gone into administration 51 years after being set up.

Some financial advice firms are not adequately collecting and recording client information when offering retirement income advice, according to the FCA.

Sarah Pritchard, FCA executive director for supervision, policy and competition, has been promoted to be deputy chief executive. 

The FCA has revealed the final rules for the new type of private stock market where shares in private companies can be traded, which will be launched later this year.

The FCA has proposed remove further unnecessary data reporting, that it said will benefit nearly all firms.

The FCA will allow finance firms to experiment with AI using computing and software from major US chipmaker Nvidia.

Today the FCA announced it was spearheading a global crackdown on rogue social media influencers. About time many will say.

The FCA plans to lift its four year ban on offering high-risk crypto exchange traded notes (cETNs) to retail investors.

A global crackdown on rogue 'finfluencers' (social media influencers) has been launched this week by nine regulators and is being spearheaded by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority.

The FCA has issued a public apology for delays in its investigation into peer-to-peer lending firm FundingSecure, its second apology issued in two weeks.