Comparethemarket forced to axe sickness insurance
With millions of workers facing an uncertain future over the coronavirus crisis, insurance companies have taken the opportunity to pull…
Financial Conduct Authority
FCA probes investment firms’ use of data and analytics
City watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority is opening an investigation into the use and value of data and advanced analytics…
Red faces at FCA as regulator fesses up to data breach
The Financial Conduct Authority – the overlord of the financial services industry – has been forced to admit it has…
£4bn loyalty penalty issue ‘will take a decade to tackle’
The crackdown on the so-called loyalty penalty – which is estimated to cost UK consumers nearly £4bn a year for…
As life after PPI looms, claims firms face ad clampdown
Claims management companies (CMCs) might be launching one last push for PPI compensation claims but they also face a fresh…
Admiral pipes Equifax aboard for expanded data brief
Admiral Insurance has expanded its partnership with Equifax to gain access to customer data in real-time so that it can…
Finance firms ‘must give loyal customers better deals’
Financial services companies should be forced to upgrade existing customers to better deals automatically, rather than force them to be…
Rogue marketers gunning for equity release consumers
First they came for the pensioners, then they came for the PPI victims, and now, it seems, they are after…
New consumer campaign to tackle rise of pension scams
With the Government still dawdling over enforcing a ban on pension cold calling, UK regulators have joined forces to launch…
TSB facing final bill of £230m from data transfer fiasco
TSB – recently dubbed the ‘Truly Shambolic Bank’ by MPs – could be facing a bill of nearly £230m for…