All FCA articles – Page 12
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NewsThe FCA’s pricing policy changes could be ‘profound’
Abolishing ‘unethical price walking’ could encourage insurers to find ‘more innovative ways’ to ‘rip off’ customers
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NewsFCA publishes policy statement confirming price walking remedies
Law firm partner says the new rules to tackle price walking give the ‘FCA teeth to enforce the requirements against those companies who have been less willing to change’
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NewsRevealed: Who are the top ethnic minority leaders and role models in 2021?
Ethnic minority insurance leaders from Aon and Aviva have made it onto Yahoo Finance’s lists again this year
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FeaturesMatt Brewis: Brokers have a key role to play in providing clarity and data
FCA director says the regulator is ‘suffering’ and needs ’to have a new approach for how we operate in the future’
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NewsFCA plans to enhance consumer protection for retail customers
The regulator aims to ‘put consumers in a stronger position to make good decisions’ thanks to proposed rule extensions
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FeaturesBriefing: The escalating etrading issue that is costing brokers millions
Brokers are suffering on an etrading issue, which is hurting their business
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Breaking NewsQuantum queries causing BI compensation logjam - Momenta Group
Up to one third of companies making business interruption claims during lockdown are still waiting for compensation
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IT InterviewIan Hughes: ‘Brutal’ changes set to hit insurance sector as FCA uses its teeth
The FCA’s pricing reform will initiate ‘a fundamental shift of culture’ – it’s imperative that brokers and insurers ‘lean in’, says chief executive
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News AnalysisInsurance2025: Personal Lines Keynotes, 2021
Firms’ differing interpretations and pace of change ahead of the FCA’s pricing reform deadlines could pose problems as the industry seeks to eliminate price walking
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NewsInsurers have paid £600m in interim and final BI claims payments
Around 13,670 BI policyholders out of the 35,438 who have had claims accepted have received at least an interim payment
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FeaturesBriefing: We are all now worried about the FCA
Brokers are losing faith in the FCA amid rising fees and levies against a backdrop of carrier failures
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NewsFCA extends pricing remedy implementation until end of 2021
The regulator has confirmed the amended timetable to ensure firms can ‘plan their change programmes effectively’, however the CII believes ‘this may not be enough time for firms to get all practices in place’
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NewsInsurers paid out £472m in interim and final BI claim payouts following test case – FCA
The regulator calculated that 10,207 BI policyholders out of the 21,140 who have had claims accepted have received at least an interim payment
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FeaturesBriefing: FCA could be setting sector up to fail with four-month pricing implementation period
The FCA took its time crafting the foundations of its general insurance pricing review, however it expects insurance businesses to turn around rule changes on the double – surely it’s in nobody’s interest to rush such a pivotal market change?
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FeaturesBriefing: Will CMCs morph to adopt motor focus post-whiplash reforms?
This month’s Fraud Charter virtual roundtable unpicked how claims management companies could evolve following the implementation of the first part of the whiplash reforms in May – it appears there is still fertile ground here for the FCA to tend
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FeaturesBriefing: FCA prepares to bare teeth over the treatment of vulnerable customers
New guidance from the regulator points to greater monitoring and oversight of firms’ treatment of vulnerable customers as part of its supervisory approach – will this change be welcomed, or viewed as another regulatory burden?
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NewsFCA issues new guidance for the treatment of vulnerable customers
The regulator has put forward this guidance to generate consistency in the treatment of vulnerable customers
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NewsIncrease in customers shopping around after FCA transparency rules
1.4m more home and motor insurance customers shopped around one year on from FCA transparency rules
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NewsArnie is back to front FCA's PPI campaign after successful first run
The head of Arnold Schwarzenegger is returning to encourage people to make PPI claims
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NewsRAC punished as FCA warns against 'unacceptable' breaking of transparency laws
RAC must contact affected customers as the FCA finds the firm failed to encourage them to shop around
