Law and Regulation

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) must tighten up its scheme registration process to prevent pensions liberation, Aries Pensions director Ian Neale warns.

A pensions liberation working committee will be set up "within weeks" to create best practice guidelines for trustees, Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA) chair Margaret Snowdon says.

Third-party administrators (TPAs) have blocked 158 transfer requests due to increasing vigilance around pension liberation fraud, according to a Go Pensions survey.

Naomi Rainey asks why the FRC takes so long over certain cases

The European Court has rejected the BT Pension Scheme's attempt to have its partial exemption from paying the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) levy restored.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has pledged to conduct a review of pensions decumulation.

An investor group has called on the UK Competition Commission (CC) to introduce mandatory audit rotation in its final report on the market.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found breaches to Principle 8 regarding conflicts of interest in half of the firms it reviewed as part of a report into inducements between advisers and providers.

The government may extend its ban on consultancy charging in auto-enrolment (AE) schemes to vehicles set up before it announced the practice would be outlawed.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has said it hopes recent reform will address criticisms of the lengthiness and effectiveness of its disciplinary scheme.