The FCA has announced a ban and fine for three wealth managers due to their reported involvement in a scheme helping clients bypass UK visa rules. 

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).

Reigate-based Financial Planning and wealth management firm One Financial Solutions has become directly authorised by the FCA.

The FCA has warned consumers about the risks of investing in loan notes and mini-bonds issued by unregulated companies.

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

The FCA today published a comprehensive report on the health of the UK wealth management sector based on a major survey of 400 UK wealth management firms.

The 10 largest wealth management firms accounted for 89% of all UK wealth management clients in 2024/25, according to figures published by the FCA today.

The FCA has expanded its global office network by appointing new attachés in India and UAE.

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 has added five fast-growing firms to its Scale-up Unit, which it set up to help innovative financial services businesses get more support from the regulator.

The FCA’s Upper Tribunal, a court of appeal, has upheld the regulator’s decision to ban financial advisers Richard Fenech and Heather Dunne from working in financial services. 

New rules finalised by the FCA today will make transaction reporting requirements smarter, simpler and more proportionate while saving firms more than £100m a year, the regulator said.

The FCA has published a package of reforms it hopes will improve transparency in UK equity markets, as well as strengthen access to market-wide information and support confidence in UK markets.

Influencer Lucy Beck is to face trial over allegations she was involved in unauthorised financial promotions on social media after pleading not guilty at a court hearing yesterday.

The Financial Conduct Authority has censured failed investment firm Equity for Growth (Securities) Limited (EFG) for approving financial promotions for mini-bonds that were “unfair, unclear and misleading.”

The FCA has obtained a confiscation order against convicted fraudster John Burford, the former NASA physicist who defrauded more than 100 investors out of £1m between 2016 and 2021.

The FCA has today told financial services firms to focus on the outcomes of monitoring customers under the Consumer Duty, rather than just their activity.

The latest FCA report on the advice market has revealed a 13.9% year on year increase in retail investment intermediation revenue in 2025 to £6.5bn despite a decline in the number of investment advisers last year.

The FCA has provisionally banned father and son Alec and Robert Finch from UK financial services after the High Court found they had engaged in fraud and misused client money.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is planning to make consumers more aware of the £85,000 limit on investment claim compensation which has not increased since 2019.