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The FCA has confirmed that it will review its policy on whistleblowers following the death by suicide of well-known whistleblower Simon Andriesz.

The FCA has joined forces with the Money and Pensions Service, The Protection Distributors’ Group and The Association of Mortgage Intermediaries, to help increase the number of consumers taking out protection insurance.

The FCA has released its finalised perimeter and rules guidance for the new UK Crypto-asset Regime which comes into force from 25 October 2027.

The Society of Pension Professionals (SPP), which represents more than 20,000 pension professionals, has called for stronger protection for consumers who use SIPPs (self invested personal pensions).

In this column for Financial Planning Today, Dr Matthew Connell, director of policy at the Personal Finance Society, looks at what a new Prime Minister might mean for Financial Planners and how they can meet the challenges of a changing political landscape.

The FCA has confirmed its indefinite ban on Demetrios Hadjigeorgiou, CEO of SIPP and pension-linked discretionary fund manager SVS Securities.

The former CEO of fund manager Blue Horizon Asset Management (BHAM), Paul Taylor, has been fined £489,000 and banned by the FCA from working in financial services after he made attempts to buy a bank and a football club using false statements.

The FCA's international crackdown on illegal 'finfluencer' promotions resulted in three arrests over the past year and 650 social media 'takedown' requests, according to the FCA's annual report and accounts published today.

The FCA says that pension firms must do more for customers who have older pensions and fund savings because of concerns that some of them may be receiving poor value.

The FCA has censured WealthTek’s custodian and agreed the firm will pay £31.7m to WealthTek clients for weak financial crime controls.