The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has warned the trustees of defined benefit (DB) schemes about potential risks to funds from allowing members to transfer out of their schemes to defined contribution (DC) schemes, suggesting that in some cases transfer valuations are too high

The former director of an employment agency has been fined and banned for five years after pleading guilty to withholding wages

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a National Football League (NFL) professional football player and a former investment banker with insider trading in advance of corporate acquisitions facilitated through coded text messages and FaceTime conversations

As government publishes papers outlining what would happen to VAT and financial services in the event of a no deal Brexit, Andrew Browne, head of tax at Bishop Fleming, sees Brexit as an opportunity for simplifying complex tax code

As development in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning picks up up speed, Clive Swan, senior vice president for applications development at Oracle, considers the pros and cons of AI for chief financial officers

The director of three Birmingham debt management companies has been banned for 12 years after an Insolvency Service investigation found he had failed to ensure companies provided regulated advice to their customers

Shareholder rebellions at listed companies rose by over a quarter in 2018, with pay proposals attracting particular scrutiny, according to analysis of voting trends during the 2018 AGM season by the Investment Association

Complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) about potential data breaches have more than doubled since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect, with financial services companies in the firing line for potential large fines, according to research by law firm EMW

Moody’s Investors Service is to pay $16.5m (£12.8m) in penalties to settle charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) involving internal control failures and failing to clearly define and consistently apply credit rating symbols in its assessment of residential mortgage-backed securities

The amount businesses lose as a result of employee fraud has doubled in the past year, according to analysis by RSM

Self-employed workers are on course to a pension saving crisis as they cannot afford to save for their retirement, with nearly half having no pension at all and a third relying solely on the state pension, according to research from Prudential

David Pike and Mark Orton, partners from KPMG, have been appointed joint administrators to Saltrock Surfwear, a leisurewear and accessories retail brand based in Devon, which has been sold in a ‘pre pack’ deal to Crew Clothing Co. Group, saving over 150 jobs