And to think we were given the chance to regulateourselves ...

With a heavy heart, Tony Bridgland charts the course of two decadesof government supervision

Somebody once said that, in order to be truly content, any civilisedsociety should only have the minimum amount of policing needed to maintainorder within the status quo. That's why, for centuries, our police havenot normally carried guns.

Over the past 20 or so years, our industry has been subject to a creepingincrease in the amount of policing imposed upon it. That's long enough formost people in the business never to have known the days when we had nopolicing at all, except for the

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FCA adds four more S166s to sector

The Financial Conduct Authority has slapped the general insurance and protection sector with another four skilled person reports as the crackdown continues.

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