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The UK Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has published a consultation on further changes to its case fee structure. In April, the FOS implemented changes to its charging structure, which included charges for professional...more
The UK Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) published its Q1 2025/26 complaints data alongside a press release, revealing a notable decline in case volumes to 68,000, down from 74,600 in the same period last year. Complaints...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its third annual report of the Wider Implications Framework (WIF) for the 2024/25 period, covering 1 April 2024 to 31 March. The report summarises coordinated efforts and...more
The UK Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has published a final policy statement and accompanying press release, confirming that the FOS is changing the interest rate applied to compensation awards to a time-weighted average...more
Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published a speech setting...more
The UK Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has updated its webpage confirming that the new charging structure, which includes charges for professional representatives referring cases, now applies. The changes have been made in...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published a policy statement on further temporary changes to handling rules for motor finance complaints. The FCA has extended the time motor finance firms have to respond to motor...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority and the Financial Ombudsman Service have launched a joint call for input on modernizing the redress system. The two main concerns of the FCA and the FOS are mass redress events and FCA-FOS...more
The U.K. Financial Ombudsman Service published a feedback statement to its consultation on its proposals to charge fees to claims management companies and other professional representatives. The statement summarizes the...more
On the 7 August 2024, the FCA issued its Final Notice to the asset manager H2O AM LLP (“H2O”), in the context of which H2O agreed to pay €250 million to investors who have been unable to access their funds since 2020. In the...more
Imagine this – a customer submits a payment instruction directing that all their life savings are transferred to a third-party account for the purposes of an investment. What do you do? While the scenario may appear...more
Financial Services (Gibraltar) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 - The Financial Services (Gibraltar) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/1274) have been published, together with an explanatory...more
One year on from Australia's Royal Commission on Banking - The report of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (the Report), was published one year ago....more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has issued a press release announcing that Baroness Zahida Manzoor CBE has been appointed Chair of the Financial Ombudsman Service. ...more
From 1 April 2019 two significant changes take effect: - The jurisdiction of the FOS is extended to cover small and medium-sized enterprises, certain charities and trusts and personal guarantors; and - The FOS award...more
Following its consultation in late 2018, the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has published its new policy statement, which confirms that it will increase the limits on the awards that the Financial Ombudsman Service...more
On 24 October 2018, the FCA published a report on the progress of its consumer communications campaign on PPI mis-selling (the “CCC”) and its supervision of the manner in which firms are handling PPI complaints....more
On 6 March 2017 the FCA published its first consultation paper (CP 17/7, the “Consultation Paper“) on its proposals for implementing the Insurance Distribution Directive ((EU) 2016/97, the “IDD“). The deadline for...more