Regulation
FSA sets strict deadline for 'treating customers fairly'
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has set a deadline of March 2007 for FSA regulated firms to r...
Brokers have been warned to check ..
Brokers have been warned to check the domicile of their general insurance product providers, or risk...
FOS to get busy changing broker charging structure
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has confirmed it will change its charging structure for invest...
Regulation Zone
Insurance Age's new Regulation Zone, sponsored by Groupama Insurances, has really taken off since it...
New postal changes could hit brokers
Brokers, already hard hit by rising postal costs since the implementation of statutory regulation, c...
The bright side
FSA Regulation
June's debate
Broker Management Forum
Appointment at Heath Lambert
Mike McTomney is joining Heath Lambert as director of the marine liability team. McTomney has spent ...
Letter of the month - Surprise over tone and hints of 'sleaze'
I am responding to David Worsfold's comments in the May edition of Professional Broking (Parliament,...
FSA rethinks poison ARROW
Commercial law firm Beachcroft LLP (previously Beachcroft Wansbroughs) has completed work on behalf ...
Professional Broking online poll and results
Is recruiting quality staff becoming harder? Yes 69.2% No 15.4% Unsure 15.4% July online poll qu...
Honourable intentions
Commission
Contract uncertainty
Q. Recent missives from some insurers state that quotations must comply with contract certainty. I am a provincial broker, so what should I be doing?
Appointment at Allianz Cornhill
Andrew Poppleton has joined the Allianz Cornhill personal lines household team as schemes manager. O...
Oxygen brings early rehab into EL and PL
Oxygen Insurance Managers - the agency operation of Oxygen, the London market insurance intermediary...
Has your pocket been picked?
'We're taking no action; that'll cost you £360', FOS tells broker
Compliance problems? Get into the Zone
Although Financial Services Authority (FSA) based regulation has now become embedded into the insura...
Brokers responsible for client fire-safety update
Brokers have a duty to inform clients about new fire-safety rules affecting all non-domestic premise...
FSA findings
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said it plans to look further, in collaboration with the ...
There is change afoot but who is driving it?
Robin Oakes looks at the changes undergone by the London insurance market over the past 24 years and says it is time the regulator caught up if the market is to become the world's best
CILA: re-structure aims to improve broker accessibility
The new president of the Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters (CILA) has created new special intere...
ICS launches system
Insurance Compliance Services (ICS) has launched a new system for brokers after discovering that man...
An important turning point
Critical illness
FSA review
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is to set out further details of its post-implementation revi...