Regulation
Religion and politics
Q. An employee has complained he has not been granted leave for one of his faith festivals, despite having used all of his holiday entitlement
Light Letter of the month - Search
I think one-fifth of brokers expecting to grow significantly, as revealed in the Professional Brokin...
A raft of conflict
Q. Our firm handles mainly commercial business. I know that the FSA has written to some firms about conflicts of interest, but surely smaller firms like ours only survive by retaining satisfied clients and, as such, can state that everything is done with…
Prophets of boom
Market Cycle
BIBA opposes FSA over disclosure
The British Insurance Brokers' Association has opposed the Financial Services Authority's plans to a...
Pursuing a bone of contention
Anyone with management responsibility in a Financial Services Authority-regulated business should, b...
FSA appoints Snowball to panel
The Financial Services Authority has appointed Patrick Snowball, group executive director at Aviva, ...
SSP releases first half-year results
E-commerce & technology
Risk perspectives Getting into good business habits
The file audit is an excellent example of where good business practice and regulatory requirements c...
Honey: FSA has listened
News interview
Compliance: the buck stops here
Software company Primavera has warned businesses they must take responsibility for compliance and ri...
Compulsory disclosure raises its ugly head again, causing more confusion
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has again decided to raise the spectre of the compulsory disc...
Brokers say FSA is 'still not listening'
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is not listening to brokers and their concerns a year after t...
FSA and broking community have different views
Rather unsurprisingly, it appears the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the broking community h...
Facing challenges head on
Andrew Torrance talks to Michelle Worvell about his reign at Allianz Cornhill, which has seen company profits rise significantly, and about the unfair criticism brokers have received
UK financial heartland being tested to the limit
Key financial firms and infrastructure providers would be able to cope with a major operational disr...
Government targets fraud
Fraud has shot up the political agenda in the past year - with ramifications for the insurance indus...
Pinnacle standing reflects sound principles
Company ratings
Investing outside the box
Outsourcing
Professional Broking online poll and results
December online poll question: Would you consider outsourcing infrastructure to focus on giving advi...
Stephen Bland - Regulatory reservations
Ahead of the Financial Services Authority announcing its priorities in January, Stephen Bland, director of the retail firms division, talks to Andrew Tjaardstra about this and airs his concerns following Arrow visits
Broker management forum
Chaired by Professional Broking's editor, Richard Adams, the recent Broker Management Forum assessed the legacy of Spitzer and potential knock-on effects to UK brokers via the EU's impending investigation into business insurance
Account of being attacked by pirates
Andrew Paddick has written his account of being attacked by pirates on the high seas, first reported...
FSA to review compulsory disclosure of commission
The Financial Services Authority is set to review whether it should amend its current policy of comm...