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New guidance to help firms do more for vulnerable consumers

The FCA has set out new best practice guidance for firms to do more to protect vulnerable consumers. More than 24 million people display one or more potential characteristics of vulnerability – which include physical and mental health issues, recent life events such as bereavement, capability and

HM Land Registry to accept electronic signatures

From Monday 27 July 2020, HM Land Registry will accept ‘witnessed electronic signatures’: electronic signatures that enable an individual to sign legal documents, but which still require a witness who is present at the time to also sign the documents electronically. The organisation has published

£589 million to kickstart rail upgrades across the north

over £600 million worth of investment in northern rail network will drive improvements across the region, including release of £589 million for work to upgrade and electrify Transpennine main line new council, led by Grant Shapps as Northern Powerhouse Minister, will give northern leaders ‘direct