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Public adjusters launch national conduct code for US claims

Voluntary standard targets consistency across state rules

FCA Market Watch 86

On 14 October 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Market Watch 86. In this Market Watch, the FCA shares its observations from recent supervisory visits to UK reta...

FCA Misconduct Rules Put Surveillance Evidence and HR–Compliance Workflows to the Test

The Financial Conduct Authority’s expanded non-financial misconduct rules took effect on 1 September, bringing around 37,000 non-bank firms within a broader conduct regime. Firms n...

Keeping the Consumer Duty focused on outcomes

It’s about outcomes, not just compliance

Pure protection market study: FCA publishes final report  

Background On 21 September 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its findings (MS24/1.5) from its market study into the distribution of pure protection products to...

Marketing in Regulated Industries: Turning Compliance Into Competitive Advantage

Healthcare, financial services, insurance, legal, energy, and cybersecurity are all seen as challenging industries for marketing professionals. Slow review cycles, strict claims re...

Don’t Mention It… The CFTC Places New Guardrails on Mention Markets

Editorial. Omissions and commissions

Insurance distribution reforms must be expedited

Insurance Marketing: Compliance Risks and What to Do About It

Insurance marketing has a lot in common with healthcare and finance marketing. You need to make a complex product sound clear and compelling without crossing any compliance lines....

Warren presses insurance regulators for answers on private credit ties as Walter probe widens

NAIC letter points to a tenfold-plus jump in one insurer's reported related-party holdings and asks whether state oversight can keep pace with footprint in life insurance

Repeat Nats failures draw regulatory scrutiny to travel cover

Consumer Duty's fair value test has a new candidate, and it isn't a pricing model

Before the FCA Writes Another Rule, Has Consumer Duty Actually Worked? (Francesco Fulcoli)

On 2 September, the Financial Conduct Authority’s David Geale , Executive Director of Consumers, P...

FCA misconduct rules take effect today

Jacqueline Girow says firms will struggle in September if they can't say how a complaint gets handled

Insurance Implications of Expanded Retail Access to Private Markets

OCC and FDIC Finalize Standards for Unsafe or Unsound Practices and MRAs

FCA data backs CII on consumer duty reporting gaps

Second-year Consumer Duty board reports show better governance and richer data - but most firms still cannot prove their reporting is actually improving outcomes for customers

Consumer Duty's Neglected Outcome: What the FCA's Support Review Reveals About UK Firms' Client Care (Nanne Parmar)

When the Consumer Duty came into force in July 2023, most of the early attention went to price and v...

MGA paper just got riskier for brokers amid FCA governance push

The FCA's governance review of MGAs and coverholders runs through to early 2027. A broker placing business through an MGA is already inside that review's scope - because Consumer D...

Two SE States Take Action Against A-Cap Insurers Amid Rising Concerns About Ability to Pay Claims

Two weeks after South Carolina’s insurance regulator took steps to place Atlantic Coast Life Insurance into rehabilitation, another state’s commissioner in September suspended the...

Turning Straw Into Gold: BOLI Exchanges and the Open Insurable Interest Question

The Seven Expensive Sins of Premium-Financed Life Insurance

Human behavior is sometimes to blame when transactions go wrong.

FCA publishes good and poor practice for CFD firms

On 15 October 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a new webpage setting out good practices and areas where contracts for difference (CFD) firms could do more to m...

FCA Market Watch 86 Reveals Material Weaknesses in MAR Surveillance

The FCA recently published Market Watch 86 highlighting a number of deficiencies in the systems, controls and governance over market abuse regulation (MAR). This follows supervisor...

“If you’re not taking care of your client, someone else will”

Trucordia CEO on how the soft market raises retention issues, and a broker's biggest competitive tool