The FCA is to consult on a sweeping new 'Consumer Duty' which will compel firms to do more to protect consumers from harm and bad financial decisions. 

The FCA is consulting on plans to significantly strengthen regulation of appointed representatives (ARs) after analysis showed firms employing appointed reps suffered four times as many complaints as firms not using appointed reps. 

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed scrapping the requirement for packaged retail investment and insurance-based products (PRIIPS) providers to include performance scenarios in communications to clients.

The FCA will ban commissions on funeral plans from 29 July 2022 when it begins to regulate the funeral plans market for the first time.