The FCA is to shine a spotlight on how platforms are influenced by their commercial relationships.

The FCA will investigate if consumers are being harmed by a mismatch between the interests of the adviser and client when advisers select a platform.

The Chartered Insurance Institute is preparing the launch of a new pension transfers qualification following FCA plans to tighten the advice requirements for the transfer of safeguarded benefits.

Nearly 3,600 consumers have been compensated for wrongly being advised to switch savings into ‘risky’ assets within SIPPs – at a cost of £105m.

The ABI has disputed the FCA’s finding that accessing pension savings early has become 'the new norm'.

The Financial Conduct Authority has identified a number of pension areas where ‘intervention’ may be necessary following the introduction of the pension freedoms in April 2015.

The Financial Conduct Authority has identified a number of pension areas where ‘intervention’ may be necessary following the introduction of the pension freedoms in April 2015.

The regulator today published the interim findings of its Retirement Outcomes Review which was launched in July 2016. It is the first major study into how the retirement income market is changing since the pension freedoms.

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The FCA’s findings in its Retirement Outcomes Review are ‘disturbing’ and show ‘bonkers’ behaviour from savers, industry commentators said this morning.

The FCA has watered down its original proposals to require all advisers to record client calls.

The FCA has told the advice sector its bill to help pay for the regulator will rise by 4.7%.