pensions regulator the financial conduct authority says many people can't. hours and is launching a new awareness campaign. honey langcaster—james is a behavioural psychologist let's run through some of the tactics that the scammers are using. i think probably one of the most common tactics is to put you under time pressure and they do that very subtly, they will often say things like look, ijust want to one you, there is only actually another day or so for you to get this offer and that makes you think, gosh, i don't wa nt that makes you think, gosh, i don't want to miss out so you don't necessarily check the small print or really go perhaps onto the financial conduct authority website and check if they are actually registered. so those are the kinds of common things they will do but the other things they will do but the other things they will do as well as they will often offer you a free pension review and you think well, this is free, what harm can there be, what risk can i be under? but unfortunately, that's often the sign ofa unfortunately, that's ofte

illicit use of cryptocurrencies around the worldlj suspect we will see that and the fca, the financial conduct authorityething similar. thank you very much indeed. they agree with simon. the podcast on bbc sounds about the crypto queen, the missing crypto queen who started one coin, it is a fascinating ponca —— podcast if you're interested. let's turn to our top news story on the briefing today — the decision by president trump to sign legislation, already passed by congress, supporting the protestors in hong kong. could itjeopardize already tense trade negotiations between the us and china? rico hizon is following the story. this rico hizon. good to see you. markets are wobbling again. absolutely. it is valid, sally, because what happened overnight in washington, dc could really hurt the ongoing trade negotiation process with china. raising has not made any reference so far to the talks, but it has accused the united states, sally, of sinister intentions. president trump signed to bills as he tries to reach a phase one trade arrangement with beijing. earlier this week he was bragging that a deal was in

to fail banks given the power to affect to be see it your own regulation we have the financial conduct to authority and u.k. which refuses to reflate the financial state. sees that the widespread criminality is going on in the same side for mr so ricky and we had to replace it's getting a wind. wide scale crime and misconduct and if an agency in a course on the losing end of these scenarios is the text i'm probably right so fill me in on another dimension to this and that would be in the media space so the media space in britain it's dominated by the b.b.c. in the broadcast space a t.v. broadcast base you also have channel 4 and i t.v. so that pretty much is 90 percent of all the t.v. broadcasting in the print space you have on the conservative side you've got the telegraph and the financial times i suppose and then on the left or liberal side supposedly mind might argue maybe not so much but you have the guardian and other papers so. what how does is our media attack like this the b.b.c. cover these stories in any vigorous way for example r.b.s. as you indicate there. it's similar here in the unit

to fraudsters than those without the qualification — that's according to a survey by the financial conduct authoritysavings.actual pension scam victims lost an average of £82,000 last year. first this our... —— first this hour... despite deep autumn discounting and early seasonal promotions, high street sales collapsed in the last week of october following further brexit delays and the announcement of a december general election. that's according to new figures released today by the accountancy and business advisory firm bdo reveal. well, sophie michael is head of retail and wholesale at bdo, the author of that reports and joins me know. isn't all doom and gloom on the high street, or were there some bright spots in october? because some elements appear to be doing rather well. overall in october we saw a slight increase. as you said, that last week really fell off into negative drops in sales. i think, as you said, again, in order to achieve that slight increase in october retailers have heavily discounted. there are reports out saying that they discounted deeper than we have seen for a number of y

to fraudsters than those without the qualification — that‘s according to a survey by the financial conduct authorityand says it is also taking more time than expected to test the signalling software. so royal mail is seeking a high court injunction to stop a potential postal strike? they have put in a formal application to stop this strike. in the formal statement they issued, they say the strike ballot had "potential irregularities and was unlawful and therefore null and void". the ballot of 100,000 royal mail staff was held overjob security and terms. 9796 97% voted in favour. they were doing so over 97% voted in favour. they were doing so overjob conditions and they say the company failed to adhere to employment deal they last year. royal mail refutes this. they say they have evidence that union members were put under pressure to vote yes in this ballot. the high court is due to hear royal mail‘s application for this injunction early next week. if the strike goes ahead, what would it mean for customers? no date has been set yet for potential strike action but you are right, the applications are t

but we have the financial conduct authority, the bank of england looking at this, and they can issuesaying that the board lacked commonsense. which is remarkable. i can remember speaking to the chief executive of tsb when he was still in place, after this, and it was clear that he didn't have control over this platform move. now, he says now, having seen this report, ifi says now, having seen this report, if i was told all of this, there we re if i was told all of this, there were certain things the tsb board we re were certain things the tsb board were not told by this spanish owning company. i wouldn't have gone ahead with the move. so there is a lot more to be discussed there. then the banking sector will look at this and say, right, what are we learning? because actually, outages across all banks are becoming more frequent. 0ne banks are becoming more frequent. one issue which has been raised by the consumer group which. 0ver over the last five years, customers have been pushed down a digital route, get our research shows that almost every day there is an it glitch in those syste

authority code of conduct. that's what's being investigated now. the code of conduct says holders of public office shouldn't use their position to gain financial or otherheirfriends. and states, and, again, this is a quote, holders of public office should declare any private interests relating to their public duties. he denies any wrongdoing. have a look at this. this is mrjohnson being asked about this by my colleague, andrew marr. everything was done with full propriety. so you did declare the interest, and you'll be able to say that... no, i said that everything was done in accordance with full proprietary. i asked a very specific question. you have to declare an interest. did you do that? there was no interest to declare. you know what, i agree with him. there was no interest. there was no interest in that, i was rightfully... i applied for these tenders. i had to go through the process. you know, i got £10,000 for sponsorship for an event that cost 50,000. i did an event at the houses of parliament. they gave me 1500. have you ever done an event at houses of parliament? i mean, that buys you a cup of coffee. the point is he didn't do me any favour

a senior figure at the financial conduct authority accused colleagues at its headquarters of leavingaccording new data out today, it's hong kong's causeway bay — keeping its crown as the priciest shopping street — with new york's upper fifth avenue in second place and london's new bond street third — but the it does also take the title for the costliest place in europe to locate a retail store. —— that does. the annual ‘main streets across the world' report tracks rents for 448 locations across 68 markets — it's plubished by cushman and wakefield, and ranks locations by their prime rental value. joining us now is darren yates, head of emea retail research at cushman & wakefield. why is hong kong number one in the ranking? in essence, hong kong is a very wealthy market, in fact in the 30 or so years wealthy market, in fact in the 30 or so yea rs we wealthy market, in fact in the 30 or so years we have been doing this publication in terms of ranking, hong kong has never been out of the top five. it has some real staying power. as i said, it very wealthy, very high population density. s