New Payment Systems Regulator puts customers and payments users at the heart of the £75 trillion UK payment systems industry

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), the new economic regulator for payment systems, today confirmed how it will regulate the industry from 1 April 2015. It has also published a policy work programme setting out priorities for the year ahead. The PSR’s aim is to make payment systems work well for the people and organisations that […]
Record fine from SDT

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has handed down a record fine to a solicitor who took an unfair advantage of his former client. Nigel Harvie, who worked at a firm with his name in Oxford, was fined £305,000 by the tribunal at a hearing last month. The previous highest amount was £50,000, handed down to […]