Regulation
The FSA is looking for nearly £580m in fees from the industry in its final year of existence, a 15% increase on the previous year.
Regulation | 03 Feb 2012
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has estimated the levy on financial services firms for 2012/13 will be £221m, up from £217m in April...
Regulation | 03 Feb 2012
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has requested £578.4m in funding for 2012/13, a 15.6% increase on this year.
Regulation | 02 Feb 2012
Concerns over the implementation of the gender ban in insurance pricing have been raised by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Insurance and Financial...
Regulation | 01 Feb 2012
Is making redundancies always the best option for coping with financial pressure? Peter Done explores the problems and alternatives
Broker | 01 Feb 2012
Transport Select Committee calls for multi-government department approach
Insurer | 01 Feb 2012
The industry needs to get up-to-speed over new rules governing client assets, explains David Roberts
Regulation | 01 Feb 2012
That broker favourite, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), has taken a bit of a pasting from the Treasury Select Committee which described the soon...
Regulation | 01 Feb 2012
The Jackson reforms will not be implemented until April 2013, the government has announced.
Regulation | 31 Jan 2012
AA Insurance has called on the government to take “decisive action” before homes in flood-prone areas of the UK become uninsurable.
Broker | 31 Jan 2012
Hector Sants, chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), claims he was talked into taking the job and that he would never let the former...
Regulation | 31 Jan 2012
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) spent nearly £400m on management expenses in the 2010/11 year as it took in nearly £1bn in levies and...
Regulation | 30 Jan 2012
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) needs to make better, bolder, faster decisions and will not lie back and let financial markets run themselves.
Regulation | 27 Jan 2012
Zurich has been granted Chartered Insurer status by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII).
Insurer | 26 Jan 2012
Phil Bird has been appointed full-time director of the Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) on a six month secondment.
Insurer | 25 Jan 2012
Analysis
The blood is well and truly covering the floor this month with three high profile departures and the sacking of an entire......
Comment
“The number of executives… that were dispatched in the last few of months of 2011 is staggering”
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Viewpoint
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