Pension transfer specialist adviser Philip Pryke has been fined £1.4m by the FCA after his firm advised on 986 transfers, many of them not in the client’s best interests.

The FCA plans to give firms subject to enforcement investigations a 48 hour window to view the contents of any announcements before they are made public.

The firm-facing requirements of the MiFID regulations are to be transferred into FCA Handbook rules next year.

The FCA’s upcoming advice guidance proposals will focus on helping consumers understand their choices around pensions, according to the regulator’s chief operating officer Emily Shepperd.

The Financial Conduct Authority has fined Macquarie Bank Limited - London Branch (MBL) £13m for serious failings that allowed one of its employees to record more than 400 fictitious trades.

MPs and members of the House of Lords have today published a critical report on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), branding the regulator ‘incompetent’.

The FCA has published an indicative roadmap of key dates for the development and introduction of the UK’s crypto regime as new research revealed crypto ownership has risen 20%.

The FCA is offering up to £30,000 to people who successfully submit a research proposal that the regulator reckons will lead to a publishable report on growth, competitiveness or regulation.

The FCA has called on insurance firms to improve bereavement handling times and share best practice after it found it took up to 122 days to process a claim.

Barclays Bank has been fined £40m for failing to disclose a fund raising deal with Qatari entities in 2008 at the height of the financial crisis in that year.

The Financial Conduct Authority has started criminal proceedings against four individuals for conspiracy to commit false accounting, with three facing further charges for fraud.

The FCA is to hold round tables with smaller advice firms in the first half of 2025 over its plans to open the door to cheaper, simplified advice services to enable more consumers to access support at an affordable price.

Two financial advisers whose clients worked in the medical and dental community have been fined more than £6,000 each and banned by the FCA for recklessly breaching an asset requirement imposed on the firm.

Regulators have stepped in to clarify pensions marketing communication after confusion caused by the new Consumer Duty rules and how they affect existing regulations.

Clone scammers have targeted Marks & Spencer’s financial services arm by setting up a fake website to try to con savers.

The FCA has cancelled the Part 4A permission to carry out regulated business of Kent-based IFA The Pentagon Partnership (FRN: 627747).

Challenger bank Metro Bank has been fined £16m by the Financial Conduct Authority for money laundering failings from 2016 to 2020.

The Financial Conduct Authority has banned company director Leigh Mackey from working in financial services and fined him £1,102,879 for misleading the FCA and misusing funds due to insurers.

The FCA has halted regulated business at Hull-based claims management firm (CMC) Prestige Legal Ltd (FRN 915619).

Two individuals running a fake investment scam - which used clone websites and other methods to target investors - have been convicted by the FCA for their roles in a £1.5m fraud.