The Financial Conduct Authority has demanded improvements in the later life mortgage / equity release sector after finding evidence of poor advice and misleading promotions.

I’m not a fan of crypto investing. It’s possibly one of the nastiest and least useful new investment sectors of the last 10 years, if you can call it an investment sector.

The FCA is to press ahead with tough new rules on cryptoasset product marketing from 8 October but will soften some of its deadlines.

One of the key figures in the early days of financial intermediary regulation, Lord Elton, has died at the age of 93.