Regulatory

New research from the Hampton-Alexander Review has found one-third of board seats at FTSE 100 companies are now held by women, however progress to develop the succession pipeline across the FTSE 350 remains slow.

The Treasury has confirmed the appointment of Jeannette Lichner and Bernadette Conroy as non-executive directors to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) board. Ms Lichner and Ms Conrol will each serve three-year terms beginning on 1 April 2020 and 1 August 2020 respectively.

Over half of FTSE 250 companies (52%) fail to mention ethnicity in their board diversity policy, and most of the FTSE 350 do not set measurable ethnicity targets, according to new research from the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). Just 14% of FTSE 100 companies set measurable objectives for board

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has today announced a major shakeup of its oversight and supervisory functions to speed up the pace of enforcement investigations. The regulator is also broadening its stated purpose which is to serve the public interest by setting high standards of corporate go

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued information for firms during the Brexit implementation period. The authority said that during the implementation period of the UK's withdrawal from the EU today, which is due to last until 31st December 2020, EU law will continue to apply.

Stonewall has released its Top 100 Employers 2020 listing with financial organisations featuring making the cut.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has today launched a consultation on revised auditing standard for identifying and assessing risks of material misstatement.  The FRC’s changes reflect revisions made by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) and are designed

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has written to major banks today asking them to provide evidence of how they arrived at their overdraft pricing decisions.

The Pensions Regulator has fined the retirement scheme of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), in a rare instance of one watchdog issuing a fine to another.

The Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) has urged that legislation should break up the UK's largest accountancy firms known as 'The Big Four' after it emerged that the profession is engaging in talks to enact a self-imposed split.

HM Treasury, following the advice of the board of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has appointed Christopher Woolard as interim chief executive. Mr Woolard will take on the chief executive role following Andrew Bailey’s departure to become governor of the Bank of England.

The Big Four accounting firms are engaging in talks with the audit regulator regarding a self-imposed break-up in an attempt to get ahead of government enforcement action. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is currently drawing up guidelines for the separation of audit and consulting operations a

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has urged credit card providers to show sensitivity and flexibility towards customers in persistent debt as new rules begin to come into force this month which allow them to impose sanctions.

Seven out of ten overdraft users will be better off or see no change when new rules on overdrafts come into force in April, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said. Around 14 million people use an unarranged overdraft each year, and all of these users will be better off or see no change. The

Reporting on workforce-related issues needs to improve to meet investor needs and reflect modern-day workforces, according to a new report from the Financial Reporting Council’s (FRC) Financial Reporting Lab. Workforce-related matters such as working conditions, changing contractual arrangemen