Regulator to reduce red tape for general insurers
Editor’s View: Emma Ann Hughes reflects on how general insurers should be careful about what they wish for from the Financial Conduct Authority's review of the rules governing financial services.
Ahead of Labour’s general election victory the party promised to tear through the volumes of prescriptive rules for general insurance.
The party committed to a lighter touch regime with more focus on
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